State Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers helped three separate people in the Adirondacks suffering from medical distress this past week.

Also, a pair of hikers became lost, leading to an overnight search involving numerous rangers.

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Town of North Elba

Staff at the Adirondak Loj requested help for a 57-year-old man from Leeburg, Florida, who was suffering from medical distress near the Uphill lean-to in the Eastern High Peaks on Monday, Sept. 12.

The Marcy Dam interior outpost caretaker responded and helped the man to Marcy Dam, where a forest ranger picked him up with an utility terrain vehicle. The ranger drove the man to his vehicle, and he said he would seek medical attention on his own.

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Town of Clifton

A 49-year-old woman from Long Lake activated her personal locator beacon on Sept. 12 near Cranberry Lake.

Forest rangers, along with Cranberry Lake rescue, responded and found the woman at Chair Rock Flow in medical distress. She was evacuated by boat to a waiting Cranberry Lake ambulance for transport to an area hospital.

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Town of North Elba

A 36-year-old man was suffering from medical distress near the Lake Colden dam on Saturday, Sept. 17, when an assistant forest ranger notified DEC dispatch in Ray Brook.

The assistant ranger was able to stabilize the man and help him down the trail toward Upper Works. A forest ranger met the pair and helped the man to his car, where he said he would seek medical attention on his own.

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Town of Indian Lake

Two men aged 19 and 20, both from Rochester, called Hamilton County 911 for help Sept. 17 after becoming lost off Limekiln Lake Road in the Moose River Plains wild forest. The pair’s cellphone died, so no GPS coordinates could be attained. They also said two of their friends were waiting at the car near where they were lost.

Rangers and a Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy searched all campsites and trailheads for the waiting friends, to no avail. The search area then expanded to include all campsites and trailheads between Inlet and Raquette Lake.

At 1:34 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 18, a ranger located the car on the Sagamore Road, about 13 miles from the original location.

Six additional rangers joined the search at 7 a.m., and the pair was located using a truck siren as an attractant. The men were in good health.