KTVZ.COM: BEND, Ore. — More than a dozen searchers, aided by fellow hikers, helped rescue an Alaska woman who fell and injured her leg Wednesday afternoon on a hiking trail above Tumalo Falls, officials said.
Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies got a call around 3 p.m., along with Sheriff’s Search and Rescue and U.S. Forest Service law enforcement. They learned the hiker, identified as Diane Desloover, 60, of Douglas, Alaska, needed help about three miles north of Tumalo Falls, on the hiking trail along the north fork of Tumalo Creek, said Capt. Marc Mills…
Visitors from Pennsylvania helped bring her part of the way down the trail, carrying her piggyback for a period of time, and she also had passed out at times, apparently from the pain. They said they soaked T-shirts in the cold water of Tumalo Creek and used it as a compress on her swollen ankle injuries….. (more)
EDITOR: The youths from Lancaster were Benjamin Field, Andrew Jarowenko and Paul Sherban. Jarowenko went for help and Field and Sherman took turns carrying the slender woman. For a day the teenagers were local celebrities, interviewed on the television stations and written up in the newspaper.
