Owsley Co. Search and Rescue

05/25/2026

05/24/2026

Sunday morning at 00:23 hours, OCSAR received a call for a UTV accident with entrapment in the Wild Dog area. OCSAR responded with SAR-1, SAR-3 and 4 personnel. Contact was made with reporting party when we obtained better cell signal and they advised everything was ok and they were returning home. Thankfully this call had a much better than expected outcome. Plus we got to get some UTV time in ourself. Lol. We would like to thank Booneville - Owsley Vol. Fire Department, Owsley Co. Sheriffs Office , Ksp and Allen’s ambulance service for their assistance and joint coordination . We hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and stay safe !!

05/16/2026

@1600 hrs Owsley Co SAR was notified of a missing person in the Hwy 11 south area, near Griffith cemetery rd. OCSAR personnel along with Owsley Co. Emergency management, Owsley Co. Sheriffs office and Kentucky Emergency Managment reported to the area to conduct investigation and begin an initial search of the area. After several hours of searching and tracking the decision was made to call off the search for the evening and resume operations in the morning due to limited visibility and rough terrain. Calls were made for human tracking sent dogs to assist in the search the following morning as well as 2 thermal imagining drones. After the plan was made a call was received that the subject had been found. Owsley Co. Sheriffs office and Owsley Co. SAR drove to the persons location to confirm. The person not being familiar with the area had simply just gotten lost. With minor scrapes and bruises this was a successful outcome. With the rough terrain in the area, we were expecting a totally different outcome. Thankfully the person checked out in good health and was happy to see civilization again. We want to thank everyone that assisted and the other agency’s for being enrout to assist.

04/10/2026

Follow along as we build up Rallycross! Our Appalachian Rallycross Series is officially part of the Sports Car Club of America through the Central Kentucky Region Chapter, and we’re proud to be building this from the ground up with their support. We’re so excited for drivers of all levels to get sideways and have a blast on the Appalachia Overland Triangle in beautiful Booneville, Kentucky!

Huge thanks to the CKR SCCA team for backing this vision and helping bring RallyCross to the Appalachian region.

This weekend, we kick things off with our first event: the AOT RallyX: Spring Challenge! If you’ve ever wanted to try RallyCross, this is your shot. Street cars, daily drivers, purpose-built machines—it all belongs here.

Follow the 🔗 in bio to our events page for more info. There’s still time to register!

Spectors Free come and enjoy with Food Trucks!!

Event Schedule for April 11, 2026
8:00am - 9:00am Competitor Arrival/Course Set-up
8:30am - 9:30am Registration Check-in
8:30am - 9:30am Tech Inspection
9:00am - 9:30am Course Open for Walking
9:00am - 9:30am Novice Meeting and Walk
9:30am - 9:45am Mandatory Driver’s Meeting
10:00am - 1:00pm Morning Competition Session
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break 45 minutes
2:00pm - 5:00pm Afternoon Competition Session
5:00pm - 6:00pm Clean up and Awards Presentation

04/05/2026

We hope everyone has a happy and blessed Easter! He is Risen!

03/09/2026

Guitars and race cars . This has been an eventful weekend. It’s not everyday you get to road Marshall (traffic control) for Def Leppards guitaris (Vivian Campbell) and (TRF Rally). I Can’t thank our personnel enough for giving up their weekend to provide services for their community. Backroads Appalachia (AOT) is paving the way for prosperity in the mountains. And we are blessed to have the opportunity to be a part of it. This would not be possible without the team work of the community and local government. Here’s to the future of Motorsports in the mountains!

03/01/2026

OCSAR and Emergency Management personnel spent their weekend training on the fundamentals of Mantracking in Jackson Co. with a large group of wonderful people.

02/21/2026

We are pleased to announce the arrival of our new SAR-1, our primary response vehicle. This purchase was made possible by a Grant from KYEM, Owsley County Fiscal Court and Booneville City Council. To meet the criteria for the SAR grant each year we are required to meet expectations and criteria set forth by KYEM. OCSAR is proud to say that we have met that criteria several years in row and have been able to receive funding from KYEM each year. We are very grateful for the support from our fiscal court, city council, ocsar members and our community. We still have a ways to go on equipping the new SAR-1 but we are very grateful to have it in service. Thanks again to Everyone for your support!