{"id":142720,"date":"2025-08-13T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142720\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:37:11","slug":"lost-hikers-rescued-from-south-mountain-firefighters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142720\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost hikers rescued from South Mountain, firefighters say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EA37E60ABAB1C5C3971BB9849DD8A8E3.jpg\" alt=\"2 men rescued while hiking South Mountain\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; Two men who became overheated and got lost while hiking along South Mountain on Tuesday night were hospitalized, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Phoenix<\/strong><\/a> Fire Department says crews responded on Aug. 12 at around 8 p.m. and found both hikers one mile from the trailhead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;The patients stated they had been hiking since 4PM, became ill and got lost,&#8221; Capt. Todd Keller said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Firefighters say a Phoenix Firebird 10 was used to extract the hikers from the mountain. The two men were then loaded into awaiting ambulances and taken to a hospital. They are in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Two men who became overheated and got lost while hiking South Mountain on Tuesday night were rescued by firefighters.  (<strong>Phoenix Fire Dept.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">No firefighters were hurt during the rescue.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The hikers weren&#8217;t identified.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/vscp7VUNoA7kGVPXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Map<\/strong><\/a><strong> of South Mountain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\/south-mountain\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Mountain<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Severe Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; Two men who became overheated and got lost while hiking along South Mountain on Tuesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,1589,5313,77801,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-142720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-south-mountain","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115022203972313245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}