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A group of hikers called for help from the summit of Mt. Marcy last week after climbing the high peak through 8 inches of snow in sneakers.
Hikers without flashlights (again) a helicopter rescue and the search for a kayaker who...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 5:07 pm State Department of Environmental Conservation officers rescued three lost people in the Cranberry Lake area in recent days. On June 19 DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch received a call at at 7:39 p.m. from two lost hikers in the Cranberry Lake Wild Forest. The hikers were advised to call 911 to determine their position. Initial attempts to gain the subjects’ coordinates were delayed and returned with questionable reliability. The hikers from Bath underestimated the trip to Hedgehog Pond, turned around, attempted to bushwhack as a shortcut, but...
Mt. Marcy rescue: Hiker with hip injury carried down snowy trail by Forest Rangers and others at night Updated May 18, 2021; State Forest Rangers in recent weeks were kept busy rescuing injured or lost hikers, along with fighting wildfires and doing prescribed burns. In one instance, a woman who suffered a hip injury after slipping on ice on top of Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks had to be carried down the mountain trail in a litter during the night. The trail had two to three feet of snow and ice in some places. One of the rescuers exhibited possible cardiac symptoms and also had to be “clos...
Wildfires, saving injured hiker, finding lost child: Latest DEC Forest Ranger action Updated 3:06 PM; State Forest Rangers have kept busy recently dealing with wild flowers, rescuing an injured hiker and finding a lost child. The following incidents took place between April 19-24. All information below was supplied by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Town of Lysander. Onondaga County Illegal Fires: “On April 19 at 6:30 p.m., a Forest Ranger received a call from Onondaga County 911 Dispatch about a woman setting fires in several parking lots at the Three Rivers Wildli...