Three hikers died over the weekend in suspected heat-related cases at state and national parks in Utah, including a father and daughter who got lost on a…
Tourists flock to parks in Utah and other southwestern states during the hottest months of the year, even as officials caution that hiking in extreme heat poses serious health risksThe daughter, 23, and her father, 52, sent a 911 text alerting dispatchers that they were lost and had run out of water while hiking the 8.
1-mile Syncline Loop, described by the National Park Service as the most challenging trail on the Island in the Sky district of the southeast Utah park. The pair set out Friday to navigate steep switchbacks and scramble through boulder fields with limited trail markers as the air temperature surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Park rangers and a helicopter crew with the Bureau of Land Management began their search for the lost hikers in the early evening Friday but found them already dead. The San Juan County Sheriff's Office identified them on Monday as Albino Herrera Espinoza and his daughter, Beatriz Herrera, of Green Bay, Wisconsin.Due to the jagged terrain, safety officials used a helicopter to airlift the bodies out of the park and to the state medical examiner on Saturday morning, according to the sheriff's office. Their deaths are being investigated as heat-related by the local sheriff and the National Park Service. Later Saturday, first responders in southwest Utah responded to a call about two hikers"suffering from a heat-related incident" at Snow Canyon State Park. The park is known for its lava tubes, sand dunes, and a canyon carved from red and white Navajo Sandstone.A multi-agency search team found and treated two hikers suffering from heat exhaustion. While they were treating those individuals, a passing hiker informed them of an unconscious person nearby. First responders found the 30-year-old woman dead, public safety officials said. The Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department is investigating her death. She has not been identified publicly. Tourists flock to parks in Utah and other southwestern states during the hottest months of the year, even as officials caution that hiking in extreme heat poses serious health risks. Earlier this month,From “cool corridors” to bus shelters, here’s how cities across the United States are innovating to combat extreme heat in 2024.
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