In 2022, the National Park Service conducted about 3,400 search and rescue operations nationwide but is the Park Service doing enough to prevent these costly rescues in the first place?natecarlisle
It wasn’t part of any travel plan.
“We just see a lot of people coming here,” said Daniel Fagergren, the chief ranger at Zion National Park. “And for some of them, they have the worst day of their life.” “There's over 1,000 saves every single year,” Heggie said. “And that ‘saved’ means if the Park Service wasn't there in some shape or form, to do a search and rescue operation, those 1,000 people probably would have died.”
Even donors chip in. Volunteers in Utah raised $60,000 for a rescue vehicle serving Arches and Canyonlands national parks. In 2015, a flash flood killed seven Zion visitors in a slot canyon. This January, a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter hoisted two hikers stranded in a snowy canyon. Darrell Cashin, the commander of the Washington County Search and Rescue, said the Park Service will assist on rescues outside of Zion, but otherwise the county receives no compensation for helping inside the park. The Park Service has tried to keep visitors from harm with some videos on social media and a few signs inside the parks with safety warnings.
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