PUEBLO COLO. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A Chicago family is safe after being rescued from a mountain in Colorado the night before Thanksgiving.
It took about seven hours for a search and rescue team to locate the family in the Greenhorn Mountains and bring them safely down.
The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office said the three adults and two children went for a hike Wednesday morning and realized as it was getting close to dusk and that they still had a long way to go. They called 911 and the team that was airlifted to the mountain along with firefighters from Rye found the family tired, without enough clothing in the cold and no food and led them to emergency vehicles.
The sheriff office attributed the safe rescue in part to the family sharing their hiking plan before they left and calling before it got dark and their phone died.
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