From a Curry County Sheriff Facebook post:

Tuesday, November 29th 2022 at about 4:40pm, the Curry County Sheriff’s Office 911/Dispatch received a call from Jim Cole of Gold Beach, reporting that while he was traveling on a back road about thirty miles from Gold Beach, he discovered a woman who was about out of gas and had been lost up there for a few days.

The woman did not want to leave her car, had no idea where she was, so Cole drove down to where he could get cell service and called the Sheriff’s Office.

Dispatch advised Sheriff’s Search and Rescue and gave the general location of where the woman, seventy-two-year-old Josephine Golden out of Grants Pass, Or, may have been according to Cole.

The area was about thirty miles east of Gold Beach, above the Lobster Creek area where there are many spur roads that are not traveled very often. SAR members, Wendy Lang, Brandy Allen and Josie Piper responded to the area and located Golden. SAR members gave Golden some gas and then escorted her back out of the area. This is another great job by SAR and thanks to Jim Cole for reporting the issue.

Tuesday November 29th, 2022, while SAR members were doing the rescue up Lobster Creek, mentioned above, the Curry County Sheriff’s Office 911/Dispatch received a 911 call from Brookings resident, twenty-year-old Valerie Tribble, reporting that she and two of her female friends had hiked to Vulcan Lake about thirty miles east of Brookings and it was getting dark, they had no flashlights and they could not find the trail they went in on. Sheriff’s Dispatch kept the girls calm, pinpointed where they were and advised Sheriff’s Search and Rescue of the issue.

SAR members responded and while they were on their way, the girls were found by a family member, off duty Brookings Police Officer Bryan Holmes, who the girls had contacted prior to calling 911.

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