Colorado´s busiest search and rescue teams seeing increasing calls for help
(World News USA)

Colorado´s 61 all-volunteer, nonprofit search-and-rescue teams are the first line of defense protecting the state´s surging population of outdoor enthusiasts. And those volunteers have never been busier. Across the state´s high country, rescue teams are seeing more calls for help as a surge of adventurers find that the mountains - especially along the Front Range - can be unforgiving even if they´re easy to get to. `Our total calls have been steadily increasing,` said Jeff Sparhawk of Boulder´s Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, the state´s busiest search team, . The past year has been huge for search-and-rescue successes, with stories of miraculous survival Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette...