SARGENT’S PURCHASE — It was a rough 24 hours for search and rescue personnel who responded to two hiking fatalities as well as the rescue of an 80-year-old last Thursday and Friday.
N.H. Fish and Game said the first call came at 2:25 p.m. Thursday, reporting a woman was showing signs of hypothermia and could not long move under her own power.
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