 Cancer. It's a very scary word. But an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. Pikeville Fire Department rescued a group of lost hikers on the Real McCoy Trail earlier this week. Through a combination of extensive training and experience they were able to find the wandering people and bring them back home safely. Firefighter slash EMT Hunter Farron gives more details after being on the scene. Our job as the fire department as the rescuers were to go up there find the lost hikers, find the whole group, make sure that we can get them out of there safely. The weather was changing. I think that with the personnel on duty and off duty plus the equipment that we had everything was done efficiently. I think it all went very smooth. We had a lot of help from our dispatch. People talking on the phone with the hikers that just kind of helped guide us to them and our knowledge of the trail system that we've you know been us being a little familiar with it. I believe that had a lot to do with it being able to know or knowing how to get around through the trails. Maps of the Real McCoy Trail are available to those who are interested in walking through it. As always it's best to stay together if going with a group and to have emergency supplies on hand if needed. Before going into the trail there are maps available of the Real McCoy Trail. Make sure that you take one it'll have all the map or all the trail systems marked out. You could use that map to maybe find out where you are and find out where the quickest way out is in case you were in a situation of getting lost or not being familiar with the area. Going into the trail the four things that you definitely need to have are food, water and a flashlight because you don't know if you're not here if you're going to make it out of there before dark hits or not and then a charged cell phone. Before you go make sure that somebody knows that you're going and in that scenario if something does happen you may be lost may not be able to find your way out. You have a cell phone where you could call somebody. We had dispatch talking us through every step letting us know where that these where these hikers were at and that helped us take the right trail to get to them in our search. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Column.