A two-day rescue effort coordinated by Moulton and Lawrence County emergency responders ended successfully Monday afternoon when a Mississippi man was discharged from a Jasper hospital after a hiking injury in Bankhead National Forest.
The rescue of John McBride, 49, of Jackson, began Sunday afternoon, and finished at 10:15 a.m. Monday when he was taken by ambulance from the Thompson Creek Trailhead in the Sipsey Wilderness to Walker Baptist Medical Center.