SLADE, Ky. (FOX 56) — Rescue teams in Powell, Wolfe, and Lee counties responded to two emergency calls happening at the same time over a mile apart from one another on Saturday afternoon at the Red River Gorge.

The Wolfe County Search and Rescue Team (WCSART) wrote on Facebook that around 2:15 p.m. on Sept. 27, crew members got a 911 call for a man who had fallen at the base of Cloud Splitter. Within minutes, a second call came in about an unresponsive hiker in the Sheltowee Trace area.

Wolfe County crews contacted Powell County Search and Rescue as well as Lee County crews to help respond to the simultaneous emergencies, and hasty teams went out to help the two men in need.

"We discovered the unresponsive male hiker had been stung by ground hornets and was found by another group of hik

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