Over the Fourth of July weekend, forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation rescued an injured hiker at the Mount Colden Trap Dike, helped an injured hiker off Seward Mountain and put out a half-acre wildland fire in the town of Schroon.
Forest rangers used a helicopter, ropes and a stretcher to rescue an injured hiker from the Mount Colden Trap Dike in the High Peaks on the Fourth of July.
The female hiker, 59, of Greenwich, Conn., had fallen and suffered a lower leg injury. Two other climbers in her group going up the Trap Dike called the rangers.
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