One Dead, Over A Dozen Rescued In Multiple Incidents
A man died of unknown causes, five people were treated for heat-related illness, and more than a dozen people were rescued in separate incidents last weekend. Temperatures during the period reached as high as 120 degrees at Lake Mohave, so rangers focused on educating visitors on the realities and dangers of high heat. A number of significant events occurred, some heat-related:
- On the afternoon of June 30th, a visitor told rangers that he’d seen a man wandering in the desert near Placer Cove Road. Four rangers and four wildland firefighters searched the area with the assistance of Las Vegas Metro PD SAR and found the man’s body 30 feet down a ridge near Nelson Road around 8 p.m. The cause of death has not yet been determined.
- Five people were treated for heat-related systems and more than a dozen people were rescued from the lake by rangers, personnel from partner agencies, and bystanders, including an 18-year-old man who was rescued by visitors when he tried to swim from Government Wash to an island without a life jacket.
- Early on the morning of June 30th, park dispatch received a marine band call reporting that several people on a houseboat near Temple Bar were suffering from possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Rescuers soon arrived on scene and assessed the medical conditions of a dozen people. Five were medevaced by air to area hospitals, four were transported by ambulance, and three were treated and released.
- Dispatch received numerous reports of a vessel fire on the north side of the Boulder Islands on the afternoon of June 30th. Visitors on another boat rescued the two people who were on board, who were uninjured. Responding emergency personnel extinguished the fire.
