{"id":520353,"date":"2026-01-16T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520353\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:38:11","slug":"2-hikers-rescued-off-piestewa-peak-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520353\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hikers rescued off Piestewa Peak in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Rescuers airlifted two hikers off <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/tcRTRkCuKzdJp2ax6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/tcRTRkCuKzdJp2ax6\">Piestewa Peak<\/a> late Thursday after they got lost, and one was injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fire crews responded just after 10:30 p.m. to a report that a man and woman had lost the trail while hiking. They found the pair about 300 yards off the main path near the base of the mountain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The Phoenix Firebird approaches Piestewa Peak during the rescue of two lost hikers on Jan. 16,...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LVQH7Z57IBCVZLNRG2INO77KPI.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"545\" \/>The Phoenix Firebird approaches Piestewa Peak during the rescue of two lost hikers on Jan. 16, 2026.(Arizona&#8217;s Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Phoenix Fire Department, the woman told crews she slipped, injured herself and couldn\u2019t make the climb back down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rescue teams used a helicopter to hoist both hikers off the mountain shortly after midnight. Paramedics took them to a hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Rescuers airlifted two hikers off Piestewa Peak late Thursday after they got lost, and one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,231726,231728,231725,231729,1589,231724,231723,7183,77800,231722,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,231727],"class_list":["post-520353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-firebird-helicopter","tag-late-night-mountain-rescue-phoenix","tag-lost-hikers-phoenix","tag-lost-on-piestewa-peak","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-fire-department-rescue","tag-phoenix-hikers-rescued","tag-phoenix-news","tag-piestewa-peak","tag-piestewa-peak-rescue","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-valley-mountain-rescues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115904820917491644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520353","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=520353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}