Here is an interesting sample of the predicaments folks can face when out and about in the Great Outdoors - besides Ebola.
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ)
Rangers Deal With Multiple Same Day Incidents
Rangers and flight crews were kept busy on Wednesday, September 24th, as seven people were evacuated from the canyon via helicopter in seven separate incidents:
A 53-year-old woman on a private river trip with cardiac problems was evacuated from the National Canyon area.
A 69-year-old woman on a commercial river trip who’d suffered a femur fracture was short-hauled via helicopter from Havasu Creek to a landing zone near the Colorado River for evacuation to the South Rim.
A 33-year-old man from a private river trip was evacuated from the mouth of Havasu Creek after suffering a serious laceration in the groin area.
A 43-year-old female backpacker with an acute abdomen (appendicitis) was evacuated from Phantom Ranch.
A 29-year-old man with cardiac issues was extracted from the North Rim developed area.
A 52-year-old male backpacker with a leg injury was evacuated from the Nankoweap area.
A 51-year-old woman on a commercial river trip with a knee injury was evacuated from the Nankoweap area.
In addition to the medevacs, there were several other incidents, including:
a flipped and stuck raft below Crystal Rapids that necessitated four rangers and two sling loads of equipment flown in to begin a two-day recovery operation;
a warrant/intoxication arrest in the South Rim developed area;
an intoxicated and possibly suicidal person approximately a mile and a half down the Bright Angel Trail; and
a hyponatremic 65-year-old woman treated and transported via NPS ambulance from the South Rim after attempting to hike rim to rim in a day.
Rangers Abby Confer and Peter Maggio served as the incident commanders for the majority of these incidents.
Grand Canyon is definitely a SAR hotspot.
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Geezer in Chief
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