{"id":974239,"date":"2026-08-01T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/974239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:49:25","slug":"overheated-child-rescued-off-phoenix-mountain-trail-during-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/974239\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheated child rescued off Phoenix mountain trail during extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A child is recovering after overheating while hiking with his parents on Camelback Mountain in Phoenix late Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Around 11 a.m., Phoenix firefighters responded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/vhRh9dDDWMHjzHid8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/vhRh9dDDWMHjzHid8\">Echo Canyon Trailhead<\/a> after reports of a hiker experiencing a medical emergency. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A child is recovering after overheating while hiking with his parents on Camelback Mountain in...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/XSSUIG57WRBQ7FWKIA4Y2Z7FRM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>A child is recovering after overheating while hiking with his parents on Camelback Mountain in Phoenix late Saturday morning.(Phoenix Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Crews found the boy suffering from heat exhaustion and used a \u201cbig wheel\u201d, a stretcher with a single wheel attached to the bottom, to transport him down the mountain to a waiting ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">He was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">An Extreme Heat Warning and First Alert Weather Days remain in effect through Monday. Highs Saturday are forecast to reach 116 degrees, with Sunday\u2019s high expected to hit 115 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">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 | article-text text-start\">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>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A child is recovering after overheating while hiking with his parents on Camelback Mountain in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":974240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,30763,391028,1587,7182,62598,391029,84688,1589,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-974239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-news","tag-arizona-rescue","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-camelback-mountain","tag-echo-canyon-trailhead","tag-mountain-rescue","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117022226402088407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974239","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=974239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}