Forest Rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation responded to lost and distressed individuals in the backcountry over the past week.

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Little Tupper canoe capsize

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LONG LAKE — Ray Brook Dispatch received an SOS activation from a satellite device on the southeast shoreline of Little Tupper Lake at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 28. At 12:05 p.m., Forest Rangers Jenna Curcio, Evan Nahor and Hannah O’Connor located the 80-year-old subject who had overturned his canoe. Rangers brought the subject to DEC’s Little Tupper Lake Headquarters at Mount Whitney and warmed him. Once warmed, the subject declined further medical attention. Resources were clear at 3:05 p.m.

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Lost on Street and Nye

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NORTH ELBA — Ray Brook Dispatch received a call from a subject reporting his wife and a friend had become lost while hiking Street and Nye mountains at 4:55 p.m. Saturday. Forest Rangers Jenna Curcio, Patrick Odell and Joseph Ordway responded. At 6:06 p.m., Curcio reached the subjects and assisted them back to their vehicle. Resources were clear at 7:18 p.m.