79-year-old hiker missing for days found at Zion National Park

A hiker missing for days astatine Zion National Park was recovered live Saturday day with the assistance of Nellis Air Force Base personnel.

The National Park Service said Friday that they were searching for John Fiske Burg, 79. He was past seen astatine 7 a.m. Tuesday leaving a La Quinta edifice successful Kanab, Utah, wherever helium was staying with a radical of 50 hikers. He had told his friends helium was considering hiking the Canyon Overlook way astatine Zion. His car was aboriginal recovered astatine the trailhead, but it was chartless erstwhile he’d arrived determination oregon wherever helium was.

On Saturday astatine 2:30 p.m., unit from Nellis “located John Fiske Burg supra Lodge Canyon,” the parkland work said successful a release.

“Burg was treated connected country and past transported to St. George for further aesculapian attention,” the NPS said.

On Friday afternoon, Burg was capable to marque a 911 telephone telephone to Washington County, and helium besides near a voicemail connection with his family, the parkland work said.

“These telephone calls provided the (search and rescue) operations the penetration needed to summation operations and people circumstantial areas of Zion National Park,” the parkland work said. “The 911 telephone helium made was captious and saved his life.”

Rangers astatine Zion National Park expressed acknowledgment to unit from Nellis Air Force Base, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Search and Rescue K-9 Units and Drone Teams, and unit and volunteers who participated successful the search. Further details connected Nellis’s engagement successful the hunt were not instantly available. Burg’s spot of residence hasn’t been released.

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