The Curry County Dispatch center received a 911 call early Sunday December 26th, evening just after 6:00pm from a phone number belonging to Kody Rosenstiel.
Due to poor service location, there was no voice contact, however, dispatch was able to determine that the call was from the Bear Camp Road area above Agness. Dispatch was not able to reconnect at that time.
Dispatch received another 911 call from the same number approximately thirty minutes later and was able to determine that twenty two year old Kody Rosenstiel of Broadbent, twenty three year old Miranda Davis of Gold Beach, two children ages two and three and three dogs were stuck in the snow about six miles up Bear Camp Road from Agness.
After walking about an hour downhill in the snow towards Agness to get cell service to call, Rosenstiel told dispatch that they were in a Ford F-350 and did not have any supplies besides some food and water and was instructed by dispatch to return to his vehicle and that Search and Rescue would find them.
The Curry County Sheriffs’ Search and Rescue Snow team were called to respond with the Sno-Cat. Search and Rescue coordinator, Deputy Walter Scherbarth led the Search and Rescue team to the Agness area and deploying the Sno-Cat, a tracked ATV, and a couple four-wheel drives. On their way to Agness, the Search and Rescue team had to navigate around a slide on the Agness Road to continue their mission. Once deployed on Bear Camp Road, the tracked ATV went out ahead and had to cut trees that were in the roadway and the Sno-Cat operators pushed the trees out of the roadway to continue up hill in heavy falling snow.
At about 10:25pm, the Search and Rescue team located the subjects and their stuck vehicle, and after winching the vehicle out with the Sno-Cat, it took about an hour to get them back down to the main Agness road.
It should be recognized that the combination of the Curry County Dispatch center, working to determine a general area where the 911 call came from and directing resources, such as the newly acquired Sno-Cat, contributed greatly in the successful rescue the stranded family.
