Local Rescue Services Deal with High Volume of Calls

Silverton Medical Rescue hiking Ice Lakes Trail to assist an injured hiker on Sunday. Photo Credit Silverton Medical Rescue Team Member

Silverton Medical Rescue hiking Ice Lakes Trail to assist an injured hiker on Sunday. Photo Credit Silverton Medical Rescue Team Member

Silverton Medical Rescue hiking Ice Lakes trail to help an injured hiker Photo Credit Silverton Medical Rescue team member

Silverton Medical Rescue hiking Ice Lakes trail to help an injured hiker Photo Credit Silverton Medical Rescue team member

DSNGRR employees are always all smiles & happy. Nick Battelo moved to Durango just to work for the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Train & loves being a Brakeman. Photo Credit - Silverton Area Chamber of Commerce

DSNGRR employees are always all smiles & happy. Nick Battelo moved to Durango just to work for the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Train & loves being a Brakeman. Photo Credit - Silverton Area Chamber of Commerce

In the last two weeks, the Silverton Medial Rescue Team saw a spike in ambulance and search & rescue calls starting the Tuesday after the 4th of July. Search and Rescue has had over a dozen calls including 3 Garmin In-Reach distress calls which typically come from lost or injured people in the backcountry as well as one report for an overdue hiker from a concerned family member last Wednesd...

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