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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.– A confederate California rescue squad was dispatched to assistance a hiker who became dehydrated, and portion searching for the hiker, encountered 2 different hikers needing rescue aft dehydration.
The incidental happened connected Saturday day astatine Arlington Peak, according to Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue.
The rescue squad received a telephone for a hiker successful distress who was portion of a radical that ran retired of h2o portion hiking the peak. The hiker became severely dehydrated and couldn't proceed on.
As the rescue chopper deployed successful hunt of the hiker, they were flagged down by a lone hiker connected the way successful distress from dehydration. Thinking this was the hiker they had been looking for, they lowered a medic to assistance them.
They soon realized it was an further hiker who needed help, truthful they hoisted them into the chopper and took them to the hospital.
A Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue chopper portion looking for the dehydrated hiker.
(Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue / FOX Weather)
The rescue squad past continued searching for the archetypal dehydrated hiker. Eventually, they recovered the hiker, who was inactive with their group. They were besides hoisted into a chopper and taken to the hospital.
Search and Rescue, on with Santa Barbara Fire personnel, gave the remainder of the hiking radical h2o and helped them down the trail.
On the way, rescuers recovered a 3rd hiker successful distress, suffering from utmost dehydration.
The squad provided the hiker with h2o and helped escort them down the way with the different radical of hikers.
Santa Barbara Search and Rescue connected Arlington Trail portion looking helping dehydrated hikers.
(Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue)
"Today’s incidental serves arsenic a captious reminder to ever hike prepared: bring much h2o than you deliberation you’ll need, commencement aboriginal oregon hike during cooler hours, and admit that way temperatures tin beryllium much than 20° hotter than astatine the trailhead," Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue said successful a Facebook post.
The hunt and rescue squad said to beryllium mindful of the trail's trouble and region and support way of however overmuch h2o you're drinking.
"If you announcement you’re drinking faster than expected and hazard moving retired of h2o earlier reaching your destination, the safest prime is to crook backmost and effort again different day," the squad said.
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