Idaho snowmobiler rescued from Beartooths after injury

Posted 2/18/20

A 69-year-old Idaho man was rescued from the Beartooth Mountains on Wednesday after being injured in a snowmobile accident.

Sandy Seright, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was snowmobiling with a …

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Idaho snowmobiler rescued from Beartooths after injury

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A 69-year-old Idaho man was rescued from the Beartooth Mountains on Wednesday after being injured in a snowmobile accident.

Sandy Seright, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was snowmobiling with a group of eight people just west of Beartooth Lake when he struck a rock, the Park County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release; Seright reportedly fractured his left arm above the elbow in the accident.

The Park County Sheriff’s Office was called for assistance at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday. Through the efforts of multiple first responders, he wound up being brought to West Park Hospital in Cody by 4:12 p.m.

The county’s Search and Rescue (SAR) team was mobilized as was the Wilderness Medical Team from Cody Regional Hospital and the SAR volunteer Snow Team.

The Snow Team is “a group of local snowmobilers from the Cody [Country] Snowmobile Association who have stepped up to add their snowmobiling expertise to SAR in case they are needed,” said Charla Baugher-Torczon, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office. “In most cases, they are closer to the emergency as they often snowmobile in the Beartooth Mountains. “

Four members of the Snow Team reached Seright around 2:15 p.m.

The team stabilized, packaged and transported Seright on an ambulance sled to members of Search and Rescue and the Wilderness Medical Team, who met them halfway to the lake. The group then continued to a staging area near the intersection of Wyo. Highway 296 and U.S. Highway 212, where an ambulance took Seright on to West Park for treatment.

Park County Sheriff Scott Steward praised the “excellent cooperation” between the agencies in the successful rescue.

“We have tremendous interagency success when it comes to situations like this. And we have excellent community resources at our disposal such as our Snow Team that respond immediately when called,” Steward said in the release. “They are the very definition of caring and community support.”

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