Global Hiker Rescue Operations
Emergency Crews Rescue Injured and Stranded Hikers Across the United States and France
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Emergency crews carried out several hiker rescues across the United States. In Montague, Massachusetts, responders stabilized a hiker with a leg injury and carried them down a steep, slippery trail; in Southington, Connecticut, firefighters used a high-angle rope operation to rescue an uninjured hiker stranded 80 feet above the ground. Rescuers also helped an injured hiker in the Western Adirondacks, treated a critically injured hiker in Grand County, Utah, with a prehospital blood transfusion before an airlift, and spent hours extracting an injured person from below Big Bradley Falls in North Carolina. Tucson firefighters used a wheeled stretcher to help a lost, tired, injured hiker five miles from a trailhead, while in France’s Pyrenees a hiker bitten by an asp viper while approaching it for a photograph was airlifted to a hospital and treated with antivenom. Authorities urged hikers to prepare for difficult terrain and changing conditions, bring water, and share their plans.
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In Montague, firefighters and paramedics from Montague, Turners Falls and Amherst, along with a regional technical rescue team, responded; crews carried the stabilized hiker about an eighth of a mile down the trail.
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In Southington, the hiker was stranded on a ledge about 30 feet from the cliff’s edge. Dispatchers identified the hiker’s location and stayed on the phone until a rescuer reached them.
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The Grand County blood transfusion was the third prehospital transfusion local crews had performed since launching the program on July 1. Officials said bringing blood products to critically injured patients can improve care in remote areas where transport takes significant time.
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