Request from Twin Falls Police
A TF police officer, who knew of this website, told me the following: "Please post on (this site) that anyone doing night jumps call dispatch... If they don't have the non-emergency number handy, call 911, we won't be upset."
The context:
Our group showed up last Saturday -> Sunday morning at 2 AM for some night jumps and we found 5 police cars at the exit point, one ambulance, and another three in the visitor's center parking lot.
Another police officer pulled over our friends in the parking lot across the street before they even got to the exit point.
They had an empty car in the visitor's center parking lot that they could not track down the owner, and they had a wuffo call in "someone jumped from the bridge without a backpack."
They were using infrared cameras to search the landing area.
They had already dispatched a rescue boat and team to look at the landing area.
We contacted a friend who was camping in the river valley (who's jump did not corrispond to the report called in) who was able to help by confirming that there were no sounds of activity, and we identified the owner of the car as a friend/base jumper who was alive and able to contact the police...
So... The rescue was called off and everyone went home.
The police thanked us for helping.
While the police officer did NOT ask the following, based upon the fact the entire rescue operation was started because they could not identify the owner of the car in the visitor's center parking lot, it would make sense that you put a note on your dashboard with your contact info and time of intended jump (or no jump) if you leave a car in the lot - so the police can find you when a wuffo calls in a jump...
P.S. I am not formally speaking on behalf of the object or anyone in TF, other than what the police officer asked me to post. Don't shoot the messenger, please.