NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Firefighters and a California Highway Patrol helicopter rescued a hiker on Friday who had become injured while traveling along the Table Rock Trail area in Napa County.
Personnel with Cal Fire/Napa County Fire from the Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit, Calistoga Fire Department, South Lake County Fire from Middletown and CHP helicopter H32 responded to a report of an injured hiker shortly before noon.
The hiker experienced an injury while hiking which Cal Fire officials said required an airlift evacuation.
Cal Fire and Calistoga Fire Department personnel hiked into the incident were the patient was located, approximately three quarters of a mile from the beginning of the trail.
Emergency personnel assessed the patient’s injury and the incident area where they determined that the safest method of patient transportation was by helicopter to the nearby ground ambulance.
The patient was prepared and transported to Cal Fire's Copter 104 using a Stokes basket and then air lifted to a nearby landing zone where the patient was transferred on to an American Medical Response ground ambulance. The rescue concluded just after 1 p.m.
The condition of the hiker was unknown Friday evening, according to Cal Fire.
Firefighters, CHP rescue hiker on Table Rock Trail
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