Photo: Volunteers from the group No More Deaths leave water in the desert for migrants in this 2018 file photo. The number of migrants who died in the desert spiked during July’s historic heat wave to the highest level for the month in more than 10 years, advocates said. (File photo by Rebecca Spiess/Cronkite News)
On the evening of Friday, August 27th, at 5pm, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office received a call that two hikers were in distress on Pine Mountain. YCSO Rescue 1 Helicopter, along with ground Search and Rescue (SR) teams were dispatched to locate the hikers who had been out on the trails most of the day. Rescue
At about 12:30 PM on Thursday, January 7th, Prescott Regional Communications Center received a 911 call about an elderly male that passed out while hiking near Lynx Lake. The caller was the patient’s wife and stated that she was on Trail 305 between Walker Road and Lynx Lake. Advanced Life support gear was placed into
As more than 90,000 of the nation’s long-term care residents have died in the coronavirus pandemic, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of fatalities is quietly claiming tens of thousands more who are succumbing not to the virus but to neglect by overwhelmed staffs and slow declines from isolation. Nursing home watchdogs are