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From left: White Mountain Swiftwater Rescue Team and Mountain Rescue Service members Steve Dupuis, Eric Wallhagen, Leanne Bernier, Jake Risch, Darren Laughland and Joe Klementovich are seen June 4 with their 2019 Higgins and Langley Incident Award. (COURTESY PHOTO)

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The North Conway based White Mountain Swift Water Rescue Team and Mountain Rescue Service received a 2019 Higgins and Langley Swiftwater Rescue Incident Award at the International Association of Water Rescue Professionals conference in South Bend, Ind.

On Dec. 28, 2018, the two volunteer teams responded to a request from New Hampshire Fish and Game Conservation Officers to assist a hypothermic backpacker on the Kinsman trail, who was cut off by rapidly rising waters on Cascade Brook.

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