SUN JOURNAL • July 10, 2023
A 14-year-old girl from Texas hiking the Appalachian Trail with a group from a summer camp in Leeds was rescued late Sunday night after she injured her ankle on the Bemis Mountain Trail in Franklin County. Eight firefighters, three NorthStar EMS ambulance personnel and a Border Patrol officer responded to a report of an injured hiker about 6 p.m., climbing a steep trail, with steep vertical rock faces and slippery rocks. Rescuers brought her down slowly in a basket, in some areas using ropes. Firefighters and others helped some of the other girls down and carried some of their backpacks.