{"id":6440,"date":"2020-11-17T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2020-11-17T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T23:26:57","slug":"wilderness-rescue-on-black-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6440","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness Rescue on Black Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/WildernessRescue11_14_20.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>A helicopter wilderness rescue on top of Black Mountain in Dresden.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 14 at 12:30 p.m., Washington County 911 transferred a call to DEC&#8217;s Ray Brook Dispatch reporting a hiker with a non-weight bearing knee injury on the trail near the summit of Black Mountain. Forest Rangers Baker, O&#8217;Connor, Donegan, Bode, and Hess responded, along with Dresden Fire Department and Skenesborough EMS, to the trailhead. Forest Ranger Donegan was the first on scene with the 46-year-old woman from South Glens Falls and requested the assistance of New York State Police Aviation. Forest Ranger DiCintio responded to the Schroon Airfield, and at 4:48 p.m., advised that he linked up with New York State Police Aviation and was en route to the hiker&#8217;s location. At dusk, NYSP Aviation performed a power-on landing at the summit of Black Mountain and the injured woman was loaded into the helicopter. The hiker was flown to a local airport where she was turned over to an ambulance for transport to the hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helicopter wilderness rescue on top of Black Mountain in Dresden. On Nov. 14 at 12:30 p.m., Washington County 911 transferred a call to DEC&#8217;s Ray Brook Dispatch reporting a hiker with a non-weight bearing knee injury on the trail near the summit of Black Mountain. Forest Rangers Baker, O&#8217;Connor, Donegan, Bode, and Hess responded, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wilderness Rescue on Black Mountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondacks","category-ny-state","category-the-environment","category-washington-county"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}