First responders helped transport injured mountain biker Kevin Arnold of North Conway to the summit of Cranmore late Sunday afternoon, where he was transferred to a DHART helicopter and airlifted to Maine Medical. (REED KARNOPP PHOTO)
Thanks to the Find My Friends phone application, Kevin Arnold’s location on Cranmore Mountain was quickly pinpointed by rescuers when he was injured in a mountain bike accident on Sunday evening. (COURTESY PHOTO)
First responders helped transport injured mountain biker Kevin Arnold of North Conway to the summit of Cranmore late Sunday afternoon, where he was transferred to a DHART helicopter and airlifted to Maine Medical. (REED KARNOPP PHOTO)
Thanks to the Find My Friends phone application, Kevin Arnold’s location on Cranmore Mountain was quickly pinpointed by rescuers when he was injured in a mountain bike accident on Sunday evening. (COURTESY PHOTO)
CONWAY — A “Find My Friends” phone app is credited with helping rescuers to locate an injured North Conway mountain biker on a White Mountain NEMBA trail on Cranmore Mountain late Sunday afternoon.
Kevin Arnold, 58, of Swett Street in North Conway, is listed in stable condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He was airlifted there from the summit of Cranmore Sunday evening by a DHART (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team) helicopter from Lebanon-Hanover, according to North Conway Fire Chief Pat Preece, who oversaw the rescue, working with volunteers, North Conway Fire and Rescue, Fish and Game and Conway police.
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