U.S. Coast Guard rescuers lifted a blind man and his service dog up from the Rogue River National Recreation Trail and onto a helicopter this week after he was overcome by heat and spent at least one night waiting for help, officials said.
The 55-year-old man, whose name hasn’t been released, was hiking with a friend in Josephine County on Saturday when he started showing signs of heat exhaustion, according to the Coast Guard. The man couldn’t walk anymore and there was no cell service in the area, so the friend left him at a campsite with a tent and some food and water and went to get help, reaching authorities by phone Sunday.