LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Search and Rescue Association has installed its new officers for 2014.
The association held a formal installation at an event on the night of Sunday, Dec. 8.
Incoming board members include President Kaylene Strugnell, Vice President Janene Dillion, Secretart Jerry Collins and Treasurer Karen Detweiler.
Other members are Kathy Krebser, training; Greg Gotelli and Terry Cara, members-at-large; and search team leaders James Hull, Malcom Dillion and Monty Winters.
In 2013 the Lake County Search and Rescue Association conducted 15 search and rescue missions, including the effort to find Mikaela Lynch, a girl with autism who went missing from her family's Clearlake vacation home in May, and the lost hunter on Hull Mountain.
Search and rescue efforts are conducted to find missing people in the county’s urban, lake, agricultural and mountain areas.
The association employs coordinated search efforts using ground, off-road vehicles, K-9, mounted equine, technical, and water search and rescue teams, with volunteers trained to national standards.
Anyone interested in joining Lake County Search and Rescue may attend the monthly meetings, held on the second Wednesday of the month.
The meetings begin at 7 p.m. in the Alternative Work Program building, 4913 Helbush Road, Lakeport.
Inquiries about membership also may be made by calling the Lake County Sheriff’s Office at 707-262-4200 and leaving a name and phone number, and request for contact. An association member will return the call.