Twice in three days, rescue personnel were called into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
A Colorado man was flown out of the wilderness Sunday afternoon and taken to a Duluth hospital for non-life threatening injuries, while on Tuesday a canoe paddler suffered a knee injury on Ensign Lake and was later found and transported to a waiting ambulance.
According to a news release from St. Louis County, around 1:15 p.m. Sunday the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received notice of a distress signal from the wilderness via a Garmin safety device.
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