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As the news media outlets almost immediately Word spread around the world that week killer loose in Mount Rainier National Park, four backpackers celebrate the new year are not aware of the dangers they can encounter.
As they walked, the tragedy that claimed the life of the Park ranger Margaret Anderson was playing out just a few miles away. A gunman who fled the scene of gunfire near Renton to shoot and kill Anderson, and later, after a 90-minute standoff, escape into the forest.
Shortly after Brian Vogt and Natalia Martinez-Paz of Allentown, near Renton, and Matt and Jen Pokrywka Berthiaume returned to camp, they see the planes and helicopters.