Shiny object in woods leads rescuers to hypothermic 79-year-old who fell in NY swamp
A freezing 79-year-old hunter was rescued after falling into a swamp in the woods in New York, officials say.
New York forest rangers said they began searching for an overdue hunter in Dickinson shortly before 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Rangers located the hunter’s vehicle, but by 1:45 a.m. still had not found him.
That’s when one of the rangers spotted something shiny on the floor of the woods, according to a news release from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. It was the hunter’s rifle.
Rangers began searching the surrounding areas and found the missing hunter about 50-yards away.
Rangers said the hunter had fallen into a swamp and was “scratched, bruised, and hypothermic” when they found him. They immediately removed the man’s frozen clothes, put him in a hypo wrap and started a fire to warm him up before carrying him out of the woods to an ambulance. He was transported to a hospital.
Dickinson is about 80 miles southwest of Montreal, Canada.
This story was originally published November 16, 2022 at 11:00 AM with the headline "Shiny object in woods leads rescuers to hypothermic 79-year-old who fell in NY swamp."
