Searching mission - 20th March 2004, Sljeme, Zagreb

The telephone bell-ringing at 8:45 am on the 20th March and short but clear notice given by Ana: "We are called for an action", characterize all the following day. Meeting was fixed at 11 am at the car-park near Sestinski lagvic where were found the car of missing person. The missing man was dissapeared two days ago and we suspected that he's not alive. The action conductor was Ana Baksa, the member of Mountain Rescue Service (MRS) "Zagreb".
	Besides their members, there was our team also (in alphabetical order by names): our conductor Ana Viller with labrador retriever Ori, Davor Juravic with golden retriever Ben, Jasna Kovacic with german shepherd Ella, Mirela Bosnar with border collie Gunna, Petra Covic golden retriever Koni, Sara Marekovic with bearded collie Toto, Tanja Janes with croatian shepherds Miska & Edi and Ead Becirevic and Tomislav Zdencar without dogs.
	After basic informations about the missing, next came the talking about searching area, drifting and methods. The area included circling space between Sestinski lagvic and City of Medvedgrad. It was settled that we will form three groups: first will go uphill to the Medvedgrad and others will go downhill from the Medvedgrad. Every team will be made of one or more MRS and KOSSP members.
In most cases, for hard, large and sheer ground, we choose fast dogs with easier skelet and very motivated dogs. In this case, there was bearded collie Toto and border collie Gunna.
	The area wasn't so hard as it was at Plesivica except occasionally sheerness. Most of time, there was relatively easy to surveyed. We had one time break for the team wich was searching uphill. After almost 3 hours, the "uphill" team came back to Sestinski lagvic. We were tired adn decided to take a break before the last area we must check: the car-park near Sestinski lagvic.
	After some time, we decided to search the last area before others teams come back: guys from MRS went directly downhill and we went a little bit around with our dogs 'cause there was pretty much of glass and thorny bushes which wasn't ideal for dogs paws. And, we just prepare to realease our dogs when we heard a call - the missing person was found about 15 metres in the bush. It was a suicide. We were so close but it wasn't important because, if we were earlier, the result would be the same... The teams which were still at the search have been recalled and soon they came back As the action end, we always do a short resume of all the event beacuse we always want to improve ourselves. From time to time our sight was agitatedly run to one direction. However, we were content with fact that we gave some piece of reliefe and comfort to the family of founded person. Nevertheless, mark of interrogation wasn't erase by finding a young man which took his life away. There is so many questions and they all start with why...