{"id":325975,"date":"2026-08-20T17:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325975\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:36:23","slug":"first-responders-rescue-rochester-native-injured-at-mount-marcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325975\/","title":{"rendered":"First responders rescue Rochester native injured at Mount Marcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESSEX COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 First responders rescued a Rochester native who became injured while hiking near the summit of Mount Marcy, the tallest mountain in the Adirondacks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Environmental Conservation said the 50-year-old hiker slipped on a wet rock and heard a crack in\u00a0their\u00a0ankle. A passing hiker, who\u2019s a podiatrist, splinted the hiker\u2019s ankle while waiting for crews to arrive. It happened the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A New York State Police helicopter carried the hiker out with the help of a forest ranger and flew them to the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/mount-marcy\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Marcy<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/hiker-rescue\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiker rescue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESSEX COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 First responders rescued a Rochester native who became injured while hiking near the summit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122681,122680,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-325975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-hiker-rescue","tag-mount-marcy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}