Published on Monday, February 08, 2010
By JESSIE SALISBURY
LYNDEBORUGH - It was supposed to be a joint training exercise on finding lost hikers on Winn Mountain with local emergency services and the Milford National Guard unit.
But the drill quickly turned into the real thing when the fire department got word that National Guardsmen suffered hypothermia on the mountain overnight.
We wanted to try our new off-road skills and new vehicles and simulate a rescue on Winn Mountain, Fire Chief Rick McQuade said Monday. We had gotten together for breakfast, then we got a call that a couple of National Guardsmen had gotten exposure over night. They were doing some cold weather training exercises.
One of the guardsmen walked out, McQuade said, and we brought down the second one. We handed them over to the ambulance to warm them up.
The Wilton-Lyndeborough Ambulance Service was scheduled to meet the National Guard at 8 a.m
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