VIDEO: California hiker discovered after days with out meals, water

Placer County Sheriff’s Office video exhibits the search and rescue of a hiker who was lacking for a number of days. He was ultimately discovered close to the American riverbank by a dive group on his third day with out meals and water. 

TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. – A large search involving greater than a dozen companies in Northern California efficiently positioned a lacking hiker who spent a number of days with out meals or water.

According to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), the hiker despatched a textual content to 911 on Aug. 18 saying he was “lost in steep terrain without food or water.” 

Dispatchers had been unable to reestablish contact with the hiker to be taught extra about his location. Soon after, deputies discovered the person’s automobile on the Euchre Bar trailhead.

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Over the subsequent two days, California Highway Patrol helicopters, PCSO drones, Mountain Rescue Teams and K9s labored to find the hiker. On Aug. 20, when dive groups arrived to start looking out the American River space, the hiker was positioned at 11 a.m. alongside the shore of the river. The hiker was then picked up by helicopter.

A photograph from a Placer County Sheriff’s Office video displaying the lacking hiker alongside the American River.

(Placer County Sheriff’s Office / FOX Weather)

“The hiker was tired, hungry, and thirsty. – but otherwise OK,” PCSO mentioned.

Video shared by the sheriff’s workplace confirmed the hiker being safely delivered again to a much less distant space. 

According to the sheriff’s workplace, greater than a dozen accomplice companies contributed assets to the hiker’s protected return.