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Forest Rangers aid hiker in 'medical distress' in Cranberry Lake

Posted 8/4/15

CLIFTON -- State forest rangers helped evacuate a 59-year-old man who Department of Environmental Conservation officials described as in “medical distress” while hiking the Cranberry Lake 50 …

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Forest Rangers aid hiker in 'medical distress' in Cranberry Lake

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CLIFTON -- State forest rangers helped evacuate a 59-year-old man who Department of Environmental Conservation officials described as in “medical distress” while hiking the Cranberry Lake 50 Trail.

Rangers say they received a request for help at 2:10 p.m. July 31 and located the man at site 10.

DEC did not identify the man in a news release, only saying he is a Staten Island resident.

DEC says forest rangers took him to a nearby DEC facility and waited and an ambulance to take him “to a nearby hospital for treatment.”

DEC officials in Ray Brook did not return a request for comment.