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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Success!
Multiple rescues on South Sister
South Sister beckons to
hikers 4 and sometimes it
leads them into trouble. In
three incidents on Tuesday,
July 13, rescuers responded to
help hikers in distress.
At about 5:36 a.m.,
Deschutes County 911
received a phone call from
Bob Sebulski who reported
his 19-year-old daughter,
Madison, was injured while
hiking South Sister. Deschutes
County dispatch was able to
obtain accurate coordinates
for the hiking party who were
about 300 feet southwest of
the peak of Lewis Glacier.
Nine Deschutes County
Sheriff 9s Office (DCSO)
Search and Rescue (SAR)
volunteers, along with two
deputies, responded to the
call. AirLink was contacted
and agreed to assist SAR with
the rescue. AirLink trans-
ported two SAR medical team
members from St. Charles
Medical Center to the general
area of the party9s location. At
8:35 a.m. they were able to
reach and stabalize Sebulski.
At the same time, the remain-
ing SAR members began to
hike to their location from the
Devil9s Lake Trailhead. At
about 10:20 a.m. the remain-
ing SAR volunteers reached
the group and began trans-
porting Sebulski via wheeled
litter down the trail to a safe
landing zone.
AirLink was again con-
tacted and agreed to respond
and transport Sebulski to the
hospital. At 1:13 p.m. AirLink
transported her to St. Charles
Medical Center - Bend with
non-life-threatening injuries.
The SAR volunteers then
escorted her father back to the
trailhead, arriving about 3 p.m.
That afternoon, rescuers
were back on the mountain.
DCSO reported that the
DCSO Special Services
Unit was dispatched to an
injured hiker on the South
Sister Climbers Trail near
the summit of South Sister
at about 4:06 p.m. Dispatch
was able to obtain accurate
coordinates for the injured
hiker which placed her near
the summit of South Sister.
Contact with the report-
ing party revealed Beverly
Logan, 58, of Portland, was
injured and would be unable
to walk down the trail without
assistance.
AirLink agreed to trans-
port two SAR volunteers par-
tially up the trail which would
reduce the time and distance
required to reach the patient.
After attempting the flight,
AirLink found weather/vis-
ibility conditions were so bad,
they had to abort the flight.
Nine SAR volunteers then
drove to the Devils Lake
Trailhead and began the hike
up to the South Sister sum-
mit. Two members of the
team proceeding ahead of the
main group were notified of a
second hiker on the trail who
had suffered an injury and
would be unable to make it
down the mountain without
assistance. Janusz Jurski, 45,
of Beaverton, was completely
separate from the first patient
and was found on the South
Sister Climbers Trail just
above Moraine Lake.
By approximately 9 p.m.,
SAR volunteers had made
contact with and were pro-
viding care for both patients
on the trail. The patients
were separated by at least 1.5
miles of steep and rugged ter-
rain, requiring the rescuers to
exercise extreme caution. An
additional seven DCSO SAR
volunteers were summoned
and responded to the scene
to assist. Weather conditions
had improved and AirLink
responded to the scene to
assist with extrication.
At 10 p.m., AirLink
arrived in the area but found
they were unable to get close
to Logan for her removal.
AirLink landed at a lower
elevation and stood by for
approximately three hours
until SAR volunteers could
move Logan to their location.
After providing medical treat-
ment and packaging her for
transport, Logan was moved
from an area of extreme ele-
vation and angle using both
hand and wheeled litter to the
waiting AirLink helicopter.
At approximately 2:57 a.m.,
Logan was released to the
care of AirLink.
At the same time, SAR
medical team members
assessed Jurski9s condition
and prepared the hiker for
transport down the trail with
a wheeled litter. After the
patient was secured in the lit-
ter, he was carried about three
miles down the trail to the
trailhead where he was going
to seek his own medical treat-
ment. Jurski was released to
his family at 2:45 a.m.
Deputy Kyle Joye, assis-
tant SAR coordinator stated
that, <The Deschutes County
Sheriff9s Office would like to
thank AirLink for their valu-
able help and assistance dur-
ing this difficult rescue of two
hikers.=
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Search-and-rescue personnel bring an injured hiker down South Sister in
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