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Posted on 07/14/2022 3:14:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 24-year-old archaeological worker with the Shreveport Cultural Resource Analysts died suddenly from a medical event Monday, July 11, the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office says.
It happened in the Kisatchie National Forest-Kisatchie District within the parish.
Around 2:15 p.m., multiple law enforcement agents responded to reports that a female hiker was possible suffering from heat exhaustion or a stroke on Forest Service Road #321 Bayou Camp Road off Longleaf Vista in the forest. While first responders were trying to get to the location, two coworkers were performing CPR on the woman until help could arrive. Medical personnel arrived on scene and continued CPR for a time, but determined the woman had died.
The Natchitoches Parish Coroner’s Office was notified, and the woman was identified as Kaylen Eileen Gehrke, 24, formerly of Missoula, Mont. She had recently moved to Longview, Texas, with her parents.
Gehrke’s parents say she was a 2016 graduate of Golden High School in Golden, Colo. She then earned a bachelor’s degree in forensic anthropology with a minor in Spanish-English bilingual from the University of Montana.
Officials do not believe there was any foul play involved in her death. Her body is being transported to Shreveport for an autopsy. Officials believe her death may be heat-related.
Deputies report that it was Gehrke’s first day on the job; she and her two co-workers were conducting an archaeological survey of Kisatchie National Forest for the U.S. Forest Service when she fell ill.
NWS Shreveport says at 2:15 p.m. Monday, it was 98° outside in Natchitoches, with a heat index of more than 107°.
Gehrke is survived by her parents, Ronald and Betsy, and her sister, Kylie.
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Had she recently been given Covid jab?
“Had she recently been given Covid jab?”
JEFF SPENCER!
I got heat stroke or heat exhaustion in my early 20s when I took a job mowing grass at an apartment complex. Turned out to be up and down hills with a push mower.
I wanted to show ‘em I could do it and forgot to drink water. Took a couple days to recover so that was the end of that job.
Someone from Colorado not acclimatized to Louisiana heat and humidity, it’s a real tough deal.
“Had she recently been given Covid jab?”
Heat stroke.
Overweight
Out of shape
98 degrees, HI AOF 1O7.
As the crow flies, about 30 miles north of Ft. Polk, a familiar post for many GI’s.
Sisters, Kaylen and Kylie. I met a woman who named her two boys Harry and Larry. Don’t know how she kept from calling the wrong name.
No lie! Ask any GI who did time at Ft. Polk! Builds character.
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Sad. RIP.
Fauci and Bill Gates were not in either Montana nor in Louisiana, so neither is a suspect in her death.
My basic training was at San Antonio in August.
Heat stroke is real
Precisely
Note: Symptoms - What to Do (heat related illnesses)
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/warning.html#text
More about symptoms...
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heat-stroke/symptoms-causes/syc-20353581
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heat-exhaustion/symptoms-causes/syc-20373250
Did Air Force OTS May-August 1963 at Lackland AFB. Hotter then hell but not the bugs/humidity of a Ft. Polk.
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