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2019

Meet the Custer County Dive Team

by Sentinel Staff


The all-volunteer public response dive team for Custer County began back in March of 2011, when Charles Cox and Bill Mazurek, both volunteers in the Custer County Sheriff’s Office Posse, got together and started a dive team for search, rescue and recovery purposes in water locations such as lakes, rivers, and ponds. The public response team is an asset to the County because a response dive team from Pueblo or Co Springs can take 24 hours or more to arrive on scene due to shift coverage. In contrast, Custer County’s Volunteer Dive Team is able to respond at a moment’s notice. Continue reading Meet the Custer County Dive Team →

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HERO BOY SAVES MOM AND SIS

HERO BOY SAVES MOM AND SIS
Two Other Boys: Good Samaritans

by Fred Hernandez

Zayden

 

It happened on the night of September 12th on Highway 96 about ten miles East of Silver Cliff, Colorado. A vehicle was traveling westbound when it went off the right side of the highway and flipped, end over end, before coming to a full stop upside down. Inside the heavily damaged vehicle a mother, who was driving, and two children in child safety seats; a boy of six and a baby girl of two, were trapped. Luckily all were wearing seat belts.
That is when our boy hero, Zayden Lazear (emphasis on age six), went into action. Somehow managing to extricate himself out of his child safety seat and its belt, Zayden also managed to get out of the crushed vehicle. He then made his way up to the highway… Continue reading HERO BOY SAVES MOM AND SIS →