CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Two men were critically injured after crashing dirt bikes in Clearlake on Monday night.
Firefighters were first dispatched to the crash just before 8 p.m. Monday, according to radio reports.
Lake County Fire Chief Willie Sapeta told Lake County News that the men and their dirt bikes crashed on the southeast side of Highway 53, around Eighth and Ninth avenues.
Radio reports stated that a landing zone was set up at Pearce Field, the former airport site off of Old Highway 53.
Sapeta said both men had major trauma and were flown to out-of-county trauma centers, one to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and the other in Enloe Hospital in Chico.
He said a total of two medic units, a rescue unit, one engine, two company officers and two helicopters responded to the incident.
The Clearlake Police Department is investigating the crash, he said.
Email Elizabeth Larson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Follow her on Twitter, @ERLarson, or Lake County News, @LakeCoNews.
Two injured in Monday night dirt bike wreck
- Elizabeth Larson
- Posted On