Flaming Geyer Search Stacie Chandler and Sage Story published in the King County Journal: A Dog's Tale -- First, a mixed-breed dog named Sage helped find an elderly woman in Federal Way who had stumbled into Lake Dolloff. That was at the end of June. Now Sage, a King County Search & Rescue dog, has done it again. Early Monday morning, she found a 39-year-old woman who became separated from her male companion while rafting the Green River near Flaming Geyser Park. Stacie Chandler, Sage's handler, said the man hiked out to get help. King County Search & Rescue teams were called around 2 a.m. Monday to help with the search. Chandler, her support person and Sage were working a logging road when Sage "just took off up a side trail on a steep hill," Chandler said. "She would run back and look, wagging and whining, and even barked once as if to say, "Hurry up." It was steep and we didn't have her mountain goat traits." Chandler said it turned out the woman had walked up to the top of the hill on Sunday night but had returned to the river because she was afraid of animals. "Then she woke up and started hiking back up at first light," Chandler said. As Chandler followed Sage, she kept doing voice checks, calling the woman's name. She eventually heard them and answered back, Chandler said.

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