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Training, Hunting for Clues with Volunteer-Driven NM Search and Rescue

October 30, 2025

10.31.2025 – We head to the Cibola National Forest to show you how the almost entirely volunteer-driven New Mexico Search and Rescue shifts from the frenetic hours of looking for a live subject to the search for clues months later. 

Correspondent: Elizabeth Miller 

Photographers: Ethan Weiner & R.J. Torres 

Producer: Jeff Proctor 

Editor: Lou DiVizio 

Guests: 

Laurie Dodge, Deputy Incident Commander, NM SAR 

Rachel Searles, Friend of Missing Woman, 911 Caller 

Robert Garcia, SAR Council President 

Robert “Bob” Rodgers, SAR Resource Officer, NM Department of Public Safety 

Mary Berry, K9 Handler, Sandia Search Dogs 

Sarah Wharton, Assistant, Sandia Search Dogs 

Indy, Search Dog 

Melvin Herrera, Cibola Search and Rescue 

Brad Berry, Drone Operator 

Steve Larese, Albuquerque Mountain Rescue; Acting Public Information Officer, NM SAR 

Tony Gaier, Incident Commander, NM SAR 

Duke Pigott, Albuquerque Mountain Rescue