A southern California rescue team was dispatched to help a hiker who became dehydrated, and while searching for the hiker , encountered two other hikers needing rescue after dehydration.

The incident happened on Saturday afternoon at Arlington Peak, according to Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue.

The rescue team received a call for a hiker in distress who was part of a group that ran out of water while hiking the peak.

The hiker became severely dehydrated and couldn’t continue on.

As the rescue helicopter deployed in search of the hiker, they were flagged down by a lone hiker on the trail in distress from dehydration.

Thinking this was the hiker they had been looking for, they lowered a medic to help them.

They soon realized it was an additional hiker who needed help, so they

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