JOYCE — Five emergency agencies in Canada and Clallam County — including the Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue Team, U.S. Coast Guard and Fire District 4 personnel — cooperated Saturday to get an ailing man from the Striped Peak area to Olympic Medical Center.
As many as 30 individuals participated in the six-hour rescue, the Sheriff’s Department said.
The 34-year-old man suffered heart palpitations and difficulty breathing while hiking a steep uphill trail between Striped Peak and the Salt Creek Recreation Area, sheriff’s officials said.
District 4 Chief Dave Chastain said the man could neither stand nor walk and may have been having a heart attack.
He was accompanied by three women and their three dogs.
When his wife called 9-1-1, she reached a British Columbia ambulance agency, which called PenCom, the dispatching agency for Clallam County.
It notified Fire District 4.
Fire personnel summoned the sheriff’s search and rescue team to help locate the man miles inside deep woods.