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A gaggle of 10 teenage hikers who spent final Friday evening misplaced was situated by a search and rescue group with the assistance of Apple’s Emergency SOS characteristic.
Members of the group — who’re all 16 to 18 years previous — spent about three hours Friday caught on the paths of Santa Paula Canyon, in Los Padres Nationwide Forest, with out correct mountaineering clothes, water and lighting tools earlier than they had been rescued, Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy Mackenzie Spears mentioned in a textual content message.
The group was principally outfitted with “t-shirts and shorts,” based on Spears, who added that “there have been a number of water crossings they usually wanted to scramble” in sure sections of the hike, or climb steep terrain by hand.
The group reached out to the sheriff’s workplace round 8 p.m. on Friday after discovering themselves misplaced on the paths, and had been capable of make contact with emergency officers utilizing Apple’s Emergency SOS characteristic, which permits iPhone customers to name or textual content native emergency providers, typically even with out cell service or Wi-Fi entry. The characteristic allowed them to share their doable location and situations with emergency personnel, mentioned the sheriff’s workplace, which added that the teenagers’ mother and father additionally reported them lacking.
The hikers had been aided again to security at Santa Paula Canyon, California.
Greater than a dozen members of the Higher Ojai Search and Rescue group, a bunch of native volunteers, headed out to search for the hikers inside half-hour of getting acquired their plea for assist, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Following an roughly three-hour, 4-mile hike into the canyon that featured “low visibility, a number of stream crossings and trails that had been beforehand broken from the heavy rains,” the rescue group discovered the lacking teenagers on the so-called Final Likelihood path round 11:15 p.m., the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
The hikers and the search and rescue group returned to the Santa Paula Canyon Trailhead round 2:40 a.m. Saturday, it mentioned.
By way of NBC Information
