State Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers helped rescue several hikers with serious leg injuries while also locating lost hikers around the Adirondacks.

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Town of Newcomb

At 5:03 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, Essex County 911 transferred a call to DEC dispatch from two hikers lost near Allen Mountain. A group of three had planned to hike Allen and Marshall mountains, but one of them suffered a leg injury and stayed at the Calamity lean-to. The other two continued on to Allen Mountain.

The two hikers became lost and ascended Skylight Brook in the morning to get cellphone service.

Rangers located the pair from phone coordinates, cold but otherwise alright. The trio were reunited and hiked out to their vehicle.

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Town of Keene

Shortly before 2 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, a woman called for help when her 68-year-old husband suffered a possible fractured femur between Armstrong and Gothics mountains. The man could not walk. Cellphone coordinates placed the pair near the summit of Armstrong Mountain.

Three rangers were picked up by State Police Aviation, and two were inserted via helicopter on the summit. Meanwhile, a Keene Valley ambulance was staged at Marcy Field. The rangers stabilized the injury, and the man was airlifted to the ambulance for transport to Elizabethtown Community Hospital. The inserted rangers escorted the rest of the hiking party out to their vehicle.

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Town of Indian Lake

Just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, Hamilton County sheriffs notified DEC dispatch of a 70-year-old man with a leg injury near the summit of Blue Mountain. The man, along with his wife and two children, heard a popping sound in his knee while the four were descending the mountain.

Several rangers responded and began staging medical supplies at the summit using an access road. The man was packaged into a litter, and rangers, volunteers and family members helped carry him to the summit. The hiker was loaded into a sheriff’s vehicle and transported down the mountain to a waiting ambulance.

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Town of Fort Ann

On Wednesday, Sept. 19, a fisherman on Lake George fell and hit his head, creating a cut that prevented him from walking out of the woods. Forest Ranger Evan Donegan, along with members of Fort Ann fire and rescue, plus Washington County sheriffs, entered the woods to assist.

The fisherman’s group, along with rescuers, met on the trail and were escorted out to the trailhead by Donegan. The subject was taken via ambulance to the Glens Falls Hospital.

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Town of Newcomb

Just before 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, a caller reported that a 37-year-old man could no longer walk after suffering a leg injury on the Gulf Brook Road in the Boreas Ponds Tract.

Ranger Jamison Martin responded and picked up the reporting party. Martin then gave the injured man and his friend a courtesy ride back to their vehicle, where the hiker said he would seek medical treatment on his own.

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Town of Norfolk

On Sunday, Sept. 23, rangers were dispatched to help search for a nonverbal 12-year-old boy who had left a residence in St. Lawrence County.

Rangers led the search effort, which included volunteers from the New York Federation of Search and Rescue Teams, state police, DEC environmental conservation officers, sheriff’s deputies and community members. The boy was located early the following morning and was brought out of a wetland by all-terrain vehicle. He was transported to Canton-Potsdam Hospital for evaluation.