- A 56-year-old woman died while hiking near Quail Creek State Park in southwestern Utah over the weekend after running out of water on a 106-degree Fahrenheit day, officials said.
- The woman was unresponsive by the time rescuers reached her, and life-saving measures were unsuccessful.
- This incident follows a string of deaths believed to be caused by the heat in the western United States over the past several weeks.
A 56-year-old woman died while hiking near a state park in southwestern Utah over the weekend after running out of water on a sweltering day, officials said.
Emergency crews responded near Quail Creek State Park on Sunday to a report of a hiker “in distress due to not having enough water and the temperature being 106 degrees Fahrenheit,” the Hurricane City Police Department said in a statement.
She was unresponsive when rescuers found her. Life-saving measures were not successful, police said. Her name and hometown have not been released.
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Canyonlands National Park is ssen from above. Several hikers are believed to have died because of extreme heat in the Western U.S. in recent weeks, including a father and daughter who got lost in Canyonlands National Park in triple-digit temperatures. (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The woman’s death is one of several believed to be caused by the heat in the western United States over the past several weeks.
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Three hikers died in state and national parks in Utah over the previous weekend, including a father and daughter from Wisconsin who got lost on a strenuous hike in Canyonlands National Park in triple-digit temperatures. A 30-year-old woman died in Snow Canyon State Park while two others were suffering from heat exhaustion.
Three hikers died in recent weeks at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, where summer temperatures on exposed parts of the trails can exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit.