36th Rescue Flight saves three in month Published Oct. 16, 2007 By Staff Sgt. Connie L. Bias 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Less than a month after their media-spotlighted rescue of a 77-year old man injured in the Idaho wilderness, they've done it again. A four-man team from the 36th Rescue Flight found and saved a man and woman lost in a wooded area about 10 miles east of Moscow, Idaho, Oct. 14, bringing the flight's save count up to 619. The save occurred at about 10:30 a.m., after the 36th was dispatched to help Latah County, Idaho, rescuers find two people who had gone for an ATV ride in the forest late the previous evening, and had not returned. When a local search team was having no luck finding the couple Sunday morning, the 36th flew in for an aerial search and found the lost travelers. "We flew over an area of the road where they had built a fire the night before, and it was still smoldering," said Senior Master Sgt. Claudio Castillo, 336th Training Support Squadron independent-duty medical technician and paramedic. "We started our search from that point and found their gator, abandoned." At that point, the crew marked the GPS coordinates, flew back to the local search team's camp and led, from the air, a ground convoy to the scene. As the four-man helicopter team waited for the ground crew, they spotted another fire and moved to check it out. "We got there, and the male was at the second fire," said Sergeant Castillo. "We landed the helicopter, the flight engineer and I assisted the guy. By that point, a ranger ambulance had showed up with one medic, so we loaded him into the back of the ambulance, put him on oxygen and gave him some water to sip." The lost female had arrived in the ambulance to the scene, having been picked up by another party, and she too was given water to deflect dehydration. The two were transported by ground to the Gritman Medical Center in Moscow, Idaho, with no serious injuries.