{"id":2445822,"date":"2019-06-28T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=308642"},"modified":"2019-06-28T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:45:51","slug":"searchers-find-vail-valley-deputys-missing-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/searchers-find-vail-valley-deputys-missing-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Searchers find Vail Valley deputy\u2019s missing truck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ross WIlmore and the Northwest Colorado Incident Management Team is helping organize and coordinate the search.<\/strong>
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GYPSUM \u2014 Almost four days after he went missing, searchers found a missing Gypsum man\u2019s truck Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Tayler Esslinger, 26, an Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy and volunteer fire fighter in Gypsum, was last heard from around 4 a.m. Tuesday and seen driving a 2011 black Dodge pickup with firefighter license plates with the number 719YBC..<\/p>\n

More than 75 volunteers joined the search Friday morning, locating Esslinger\u2019s black Dodge Ram pickup around 10:45 a.m. Friday, confirmed Jessie Porter, public information officer with the Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Office. A few minutes after the truck was located, Gypsum Fire Chief Justin Kirkland summoned his crew to a private room in the firehouse.<\/p>\n

All search teams have been recalled from their field efforts after Esslinger\u2019s truck was found, the Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Office cannot thank our community enough for the enormous outpouring of support during this difficult time. Numerous volunteers joined us in searching for Tayler by donating their personal time and vehicles to assist in the days following Tayler\u2019s disappearance,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a social media post.<\/p>\n

Doug Cupp, the operations section chief and fire chief for the Greater Eagle Fire Protection District said, \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t be able to do this without all these volunteers. It\u2019s great to see the community rise to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Esslinger\u2019s phone pinged at 4 a.m. Tuesday in a remote area of western Eagle County, and crews started the search there on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

During their Friday morning briefing, Cupp urged safety first for the searchers, and also reminded them to get out of their vehicles and put their boots on the ground.<\/p>\n

It was dark when Esslinger disappeared, so it\u2019s possible he simply ran off the road and is stuck somewhere not easily seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn areas where you cannot see over the edge, get out and look,\u201d Cupp told the searchers. \u201cWe\u2019re not looking for just a truck at a trailhead.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ross WIlmore and the Northwest Colorado Incident Management Team is helping organize and coordinate the search.Randy Wyrick\/Vail Daily GYPSUM \u2014 Almost four days after he went missing, searchers found a missing Gypsum man\u2019s truck Friday morning. Tayler Esslinger, 26, an Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy and volunteer fire fighter in Gypsum, was last heard from around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:45:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}