One of the two men found on a wilderness trail after going missing from Bangor was treated for frostbite in Massachusetts.
Constance Hoyt told the Portland Press Herald on Thursday that her husband Sidney Hoyt, 77, was brought to a Boston for frostbite treatment and might need to have toes or part of his foot amputated.
She said her husband was wearing only socks and sandals when he left his car to look for help on Wednesday evening, shortly before the two men were rescued.
Sidney Hoyt and 75-year-old Gary Foster had been last seen between 7 and 8 a.m. Tuesday when they left the Maine Veterans’ Homes facility on Hogan Road in Bangor.
The pair had planned to go for a ride on the Stud Mill Road northeast of Bangor and return to the veterans home by 5 p.m. When they didn’t return, game wardens started searching the area where they were believed to have been headed.
On Wednesday evening the owners of a blueberry farm on the Horseback Road in Township 32 heard shouting from the direction of a nearby river and called 911.
A game warden who was nearby searching found the men’s vehicle with Foster inside. The warden found Hoyt about a half-mile up a path. Both men were hypothermic, Mark Latti, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said.
The men were brought to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical in Bangor, Latti said.
Constance Hoyt told the Press Herald that her husband’s toes were “pretty black.” He was brought to Boston on Thursday morning, where the extent of the damage was being evaluated.
