KALISPELL — For 75 years Flathead County Search and Rescue volunteers have been on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Their mission is to search for missing or injured people in Flathead County and the surrounding area, doing their best to rescue them and bring them home.

“It’s amazing, sometimes it’s hard to comprehend like what they are willing to give up in their personal lives to help others,” said Flathead County Search & Rescue Coordinator Darrin Wise.

Since 1950, volunteers with Flathead County Search and Rescue have answered the call for hundreds of search and rescue missions.

“Miss holidays or birthdays or whatever personal events that they are going away from to help somebody else,” added Wise.

Wise is a Deputy Sheriff for Flathead County and also serves as Search and Res

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