The Peru Gazette

Town of Keene  – Essex County
Wilderness Rescue: On Oct. 4 at 8:08 p.m., Ray Brook Dispatch received a call about a beacon device activated to communicate a diabetic emergency. The 35-year-old from Minnesota self-administered insulin but could not test his blood sugar. At 11 p.m., Forest Rangers and a Wilmington/Keene Valley Paramedic reached the subject between Basin Mountain and Little Haystack. Rescuers helped the subject and their hiking partner back to their vehicles. When they arrived at 12:20 a.m., the patient’s blood sugar was back to a normal level.

Town of North Elba – Essex County
Wilderness Rescue: On Oct. 7 at 4 p.m., eight Forest Rangers responded to a report of three hikers stranded behind high water at Indian Falls. The hikers from Pennsylvania were descending Street Mountain when they encountered the water. Rangers used an inflatable rescue boat to pull the hikers safely across before helping them to their vehicles. Resources were clear at 6:18 p.m.

Town of Long Lake – Hamilton County
Wilderness Search: On Oct. 8 at 5:35 p.m., Ray Brook Dispatch received a call from 12 hikers lost on Owls Head Mountain. The group hiked a hunters’ trail into a beaver pond but veered off the trail on the way back. The hikers, who range in age from 14 to 75, had minimal clothing layers and food and did not have any headlamps. Dispatch identified the coordinates that put the group a couple of hundred yards east of the trail. Forest Rangers Curcio and Sabo hiked two miles, reached the group at 8:45 p.m., provided extra clothing and headlamps, and safely walked them to the trail and their vehicles. Resources were clear at midnight.

Town of North Elba Rescue

Rangers find lost Hamilton County hikers