An injured mum and three children have been rescued following a hike in a forest in Hawke’s Bay over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Police were alerted around 5.45pm on Sunday after a man’s calls failed to connect to his wife, Inspector Caroline Martin said. The woman and their children had been expected back from a short afternoon hike in Kawera Forest Park.<\/p>\n
The Rescue Coordination Centre tasked a police search and rescue team with finding the missing wh\u0101nau in the 594 square kilometre forest.<\/p>\n
Police contacted the man’s wife through their activated personal locator beacon, which helped the rescue team find the family.<\/p>\n
Five search and rescue members set off on foot and found the family, who were in good spirits. <\/p>\n
“SAR staff discovered the woman had injured herself during the hike and couldn\u2019t walk. The three children weren\u2019t hurt,” Martin said. <\/p>\n
The search and rescue crew stayed with the quartet in a nearby hut overnight before being airlifted out on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police commended the family\u2019s decision to carry a personal locator beacon.<\/p>\n
“We always recommend that you carry the appropriate emergency equipment such as a PLB and a satellite communication device no matter how long or short a hiking trip may be. Mobile phones don\u2019t always have service in remote areas,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An injured mum and three children have been rescued following a hike in a forest in Hawke’s Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,20277,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-593834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-hawke-s-bay","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}