Let's Be Careful Out There

News published in the New Jersey Herald on 6 July and written by Pat Mindos, Herald Staff Writer. Makes you stop and think:

"On the Appalachian Trail near Frankford, an unidentified female hiker burned her upper extremities while she was cooking on a small camp stove about 7 p.m. on Sunday night, according to Bob Wolff, section fire warden for the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.

"The hiker walked about one mile to the Frankford/Hampton boundary line on Route 521 west of Route 206, Wolff said.

"After a 911 call, Frankford First Responders, paramedics from Saint Clare’s Hospital in Sussex and the Blue Ridge Rescue Squad arrived on the scene as well as members of the National Park Service and the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.

"The hiker was taken to the hospital and treated for her injuries, Wolff said.
He was unsure which hospital the hiker was treated at or what her condition was." [or whether she was released and went back to hiking; or is a thru-hiker; or what her name or trail name are; or what kind of stove it was; or what caused to accident and injury]

Must have been more than a little serious to have necessitated a hospital visit. I'll say a prayer for her tonight.