Rescue on the Lake

By Heidi Kyser

Published October 1, 2018 at 3:55 PM PDT

With all the other disasters that occupied headlines last summer, you may have missed the news of a dramatic night rescue at Lake Mead. On June 24, National Park rangers rescued 17 people from two boats, one sunken and the other swamped.

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Heidi Kyser

Desert Companion welcomed Heidi Kyser as staff writer in January 2014. In 2018, she was promoted to senior writer and producer, working for both DC and KNPR's State of Nevada. She produced KNPR’s first podcast, the Edward R. Murrow Regional Award-winning Native Nevada, in 2020. The following year, she returned her focus full-time to Desert Companion, becoming Deputy Editor, which meant she was next in line to take over when longtime editor Andrew Kiraly left in July 2022. In 2024, Interim CEO Favian Perez promoted Heidi to managing editor, charged with integrating the Desert Companion and State of Nevada newsroom operations.

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