 On Oct. 16, 1977, a 12-year-old girl from Roseville wandered away from her grandparents’ campsite near Hell Hole Reservoir and became lost. She was accompanied by her Australian shepherd dog. When night fell, her grandparents got worried. According to the Oct. 20, 1977, Placer Herald: “Her grandparents first called the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department, which made a preliminary search before determining that the area was in Placer County.”
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office received the first call about the lost girl at 10:30 p.m. and dispatched two deputies. Searching in the dark yielded no results and a new search and rescue team effort began at daylight with a mounted posse, jeep posse and three German shepherd dogs with their handlers.
The dogs took a good sniff of her sleeping bag and within an hour located the young girl and her dog. Although the temperatures were close to freezing the night before, she snuggled with her dog to keep warm. She was tired and hungry but was able to walk out of the woods with the deputies to be reunited with her grandparents.
Photo: The Auburn Search and Rescue Team with their Jeeps, c. 1960
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Roseville: Trunk 'r Treat, Friday Flicks: Casper, Spooky Storywalk, Halloween Towne Night Market
Rocklin: Pumpkin Patch at Deer Creek Farm, Evenings in the Park: Wicked
Lincoln: Family Movie Night
Loomis: Monthly Mixer: Faith, Love & Thairapy, Skeleton Contest Workday
Auburn: 18th Annual Auburn Big Time Pow Wow, Auburn Harvest Festival, Taste of the Tour, Placer Artists Studios Tour
Colfax: Sierra Vista Community Center Flea Market
North Lake Tahoe: ParkFit Fridays, Disc Golf Workday, Pickleball — Outdoor Drop-in Play, Golden Hour 55+ Socials, Cricket at the Park, Free Nutrition Class: Detox 101, Family Movie Nights- Tahoe Donner, Harvest Fest - Tahoe City, Big Truck Day in Truckee, Spooky Movie Night in October, Safeway Grand Opening Celebration
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