Mike Bauer

I was nice to him.

I said, you know, I know the area pretty well if you guys want help.

And the guy goes, no, we're search and rescue.

We pretty much know what we're doing, you know.

So I go, okay, okay.

So then they're going, hey, are you the guy that knows the area?

You know, maybe you could give us a little help.

At one time thought they caught a scent and it went up on the trail going toward the Burkhart Trail.

And we had talked about someone saying they heard a gunshot.

You can't see the house from here, but it's like a half mile below the trail up there where the people live that said they heard that.

So I took a group of deputies over there and we went down really rugged, wooded canyon.

They didn't find anything.

And that was the first time I ever stepped out of a huge helicopter on the side of a mountain with one skid touching.

And then that helicopter flew off while we examined the openings of Bighorn Mine to see whether or not it had been broken into.

They do search and rescue, underwater search and recovery, and they support the special weapons team with medical skills.

And the adrenaline that you get from ESD is different from any other adrenaline.

One of the things they told our search teams on day one was, John may have stumbled into a meth lab by accident.

So that was told to us when we were out searching.

And the reason they told us is they recommended we take weapons.

There are a lot of people who just don't want to be around other human beings out there, which makes them sometimes dangerous.