Hiker rescued after injury on Old Robe Trail

Published 10:53 pm Saturday, June 23, 2007

ROBE – A 21-year-old woman who was injured in a fall while hiking Saturday was found safe by Snohomish County Search and Rescue teams.

The woman, who was hiking with her dog on the Old Robe Trail about seven miles east of Granite Falls, reportedly called a friend from her cell phone about 4:15 p.m. and said she’d fallen in the Mount Pilchuck area, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Bureau Chief Dave Bales said.

Search and rescue volunteers who were training in Gold Bar headed to the area to look for the woman. They were aided by a sheriff’s office helicopter.

Rescuers found the woman on the trail about 5:15 p.m. after spotting her vehicle at the trailhead. Her injuries were not life-threatening, Bales said.

Mountlake Terrace: Fire damages home

A bedroom fire that investigators believe was sparked by an electrical problem damaged a home in Mountlake Terrace late Friday, Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes said.

Firefighters from Edmonds and Lynnwood responded just after 11 p.m. to the home in the 5400 block of 221st Place W. The fire was contained to the bedroom where it started and did about $15,000 in damage, Hynes said.

The homeowner told firefighters the television in her living room went off, and then she smelled smoke, Hynes said. Her family evacuated and called 911 from a neighbor’s house. Nobody was injured.

From Herald staff reports