Search and rescue personnel came into contact with a family of four trapped in the valley.

(Photo courtesy of Fire Department)

[Reporter Xu Guozhen/Taichung Report] This year’s Lunar New Year holidays are long, and many people choose to go hiking. However, in the Qixiong Mountains of Guguan in Heping District, Taichung City, there were two incidents of waiting for help on the fourth day of the new year. One of them was a family Four of them were unable to climb up the valley and were trapped. The other was a woman who climbed solo and deviated from the trail and lost her way. Fortunately, all of them escaped after firefighters went up the mountain to rescue them, but they were still terrified.

The Taichung City Fire Department received a report at 5 o'clock last night. A family of 4, including two adults and two children, was trapped in a valley near 0.4K of the hiking trail when they climbed Yawowei Mountain in Heping District. , and immediately located the coordinates of the informant, and dispatched Guguan and the Peace Squad, led by Yang Zhaofeng, the leader of the Peace Squad, to the rescue with a total of 2 vehicles and 5 people.

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At 6:41 p.m., the search and rescue personnel came into contact with 4 people and helped them move along the creek back to the mountain entrance. Fortunately, the 4 people were in good health and said that they did not need to seek medical treatment and returned home by themselves; at about 6:18 p.m. on the same day, the fire department received another report Reported to the police, a 51-year-old woman surnamed Chen climbed Malun Mountain alone in the Heping District, but deviated from the trail near the 3K point and got lost. She asked for assistance and immediately dispatched Guguan and the Heping Team, a total of 2 vehicles and 4 people, to rescue.

The search and rescue personnel found Ms. Chen at 9:15 in the evening. She was weak and had no trauma. She was assisted to return to the trail and moved to the trailhead. She returned to the parking lot at the trailhead at 0:00 this morning. Ms. Chen said that she did not need to seek medical treatment and returned home on her own; The Fire Department reminds mountain climbers to make preparations before climbing the mountain, measure their health and physical condition, do not force themselves to climb the mountain, and make more preparations before going up the mountain, so that they can be more safe and go down the mountain safely.

Search and rescue personnel assisted in moving to the mountain entrance to escape.

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