Hiking trip ended in rescue, school claims it was blown “out of proportion”

National Park’s service officials and an Arizona school had different things to say about a new hiking trip that ended in a rescue.

The incident occurred on Thursday, April 10, according to a Facebook post from Lake Mead National Park Service as well as one letter to parents from an administrator at The fantastic micro -pool in Kingman.

In a post on social media about its decision to temporarily close hiking trails in Lake Mead National Recreation Area due to 100-degree plus heat, the park’s officials said that a group of 28 hikers, consisting of “three adults and 25 children with special needs” was saved after trying to reach Arizona Hot Springs “without adequate preparation.”

In addition, park officials said that a hiker last day died on the track “in what is suspected to be a heat -related incident.”

But an official with the school drove back on the details shared by Park Service, according to Arizona family.

On one letter Dr. Catherine Normoyle was sent to parents on Friday, April 11 and was shared by the outlet.

According to the administrator, the Hiking Party actually included 10 adults and 18 students, three of whom are “identified as” special needs “per education, but not outside it.”

Speaking of its preparation, Normoyle wrote that each student was asked to bring a gallon of water and that adults also had “over 100 bottles of water to distribute to students who did not give enough.” But she said it was a “mistake” to take students to their word and not make them “physically show” that they had enough water.

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The school official, who did not share many details about the hike or weather conditions that day, continued to insist that the group “was never lost on the track” – which was not a statement from the park’s officials in the post – and that they were already on their way back and about two miles from the parking lot “when the first student began to feel ill.”

The official said that a student was later transported to the hospital, but they were released quickly and “100% well.”

When it comes to how the park’s officials became involved, the official said that a student was the one who called the search and rescue. “Would I have wanted to have been consulted first? Yes,” wrote Normoyle. “But the students did what they thought was right. I applaud them for it.”

Normoyle admitted that they did not have a condition, something she claims to have been aware of having to, and that they received two quotes from Park Rangers.

“We will pay the fine and use it as a learning lesson,” Normoyle said in the letter.

Normoyle told Arizona family that she planned to share her account with Park Rangers, but that she ultimately wanted “the public to move on.”

People contacted Lake Mead National Park Service and school officials for further comments on Wednesday, April 16.