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The Honolulu Fire Department rescued three overdue hikers who spent the night on the Wahiawa Hills trail, spokesman said in an e-mail.
The Fire Department helicopter and rescue crews began searching the Wahiawa Hills trail at about 10:15 p.m. Saturday after the father of one of the missing men reported that the hiking party had not returned.
A 39-year-old man and two men in their 20s began the hike at about 10 a.m. Saturday.
The search was suspended at 1:22 a.m. and resumed at about about 6:42 a.m. today.
Firefighters and the Fire Department helicopter searched the trail area and located the hikers at 7:43 a.m, a Fire Department spokesman said. The helicopter airlifted the men to a landing zone at Iliahi Elementary School at about 8:24 a.m.
The men were not injured.
Charge a hiking fee to fund any future rescues.
The hikers never called for the rescue. They did exactly as one should: wait until daybreak the nexy day then come out. You spend the night on trail if you don’t make it out by dark.
Leave it to the ACLU for them to fight for a lighted hiking path.
That’ll have to wait until the ASPCA funds a light in that notorious phone booth so you have a fighting chance of “finding it with both hands”.
Accidental stargazers.