Last week, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Unit responded to multiple events of people caught unprepared for monsoon conditions. Wednesday, Search and Rescue responded to a report that a tree had fallen on a trail worker on Humphrey’s Peak Trail. Officials say severe weather, including heavy rain, hail, and lightning were occurring in the area causing difficulty for responders. Arizona Snowbowl employees assisted emergency responders in locating and transporting the patient to a waiting ambulance. They say immediately after, rescuers were notified of two adults, two children, and a dog who were stranded by severe weather in the Viet Springs area. Rescuers hiked in and assisted them in getting back to their vehicle. None of them were injured. The same day, an emergency Personal Locator Beacon, belonging to a 65-year-old female from Australia, was activated in Paria Canyon, upstream from Wrather Arch. A DPS helicopter located the hiker and landed nearby in the canyon. The hiker indicated that she had become stuck in quicksand and once free was swept downstream a short distance due to a flash flood the evening before then spent the night on high ground. She was exhausted, out of drinking water, and mildly hypothermic. Thursday, rescuers responded to a report of a hiker stranded by flood waters along Sycamore Rim Trail. He was uninjured. While that rescue was wrapping up, they responded to two stranded motorists north of Lake Mary Road. The two men from Las Vegas did not were uninjured.
