Status 3
It was a night of restless dreams. So when my phone blinked to life at 1:42 a.m., my eyes snapped wide open. [ALERT] **VDEM** FRONT ROYAL SAR. VDEM is the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, the state authority in charge of all emergency responses, including incidents involving missing persons. In those situations, VDEM sends out an alert to local search and rescue groups like the one I had just joined.