EDITOR’S NOTE — This story accompanies “Project Lifesaver participation on Peninsula low despite good results” — https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20150824/NEWS/308249991
SO FAR THIS YEAR, two clients who have wandered off in Clallam County and one in Jefferson County have all been found safe thanks to the Project Lifesaver program.
The most recent incident was Aug. 15, when a 69-year-old Port Angeles woman was reported missing from St. Andrew’s Place assisted living community at 7:36 p.m. and was found about 800 feet west of the assisted living community at 8:11 p.m., police said.
The woman with dementia had been outfitted with a Project Lifesaver transmitter 10 days earlier.
On July 9, an 88-year-old Port Townsend man who wore the device was located by law enforcement about an hour after police received a report at 6:21 p.m. that he had wandered from his home.
That was the second time the system had been used successfully in Jefferson County since implementation of the program in 2011.
On April 24, a 76-year-old Port Angeles man who had wandered away from an assisted living facility was located about one block away using a radio receiver and returned to the facility.
Sequim Police have not had to use the tracking system for the past couple of years, said Victoria Ormand, coordinator for the Sequim Police Department’s Volunteers in Police Service Program.
However, police are in contact with clients at least once a month to change batteries on their tracking devices.
“We kind of keep on eye on everybody and become friends,” Ormand said.
“I love seeing them. It is really great as far as I am concerned.”