Local News in Brief : Fire Departments Free Hiker Wedged in Rocks
Two county fire departments combined efforts Sunday to rescue a 25-year-old hiker from Westchester who had become lodged between rocks after falling from a Los Padres National Forest trail.
Shortly before 3 p.m., the Ventura County Fire Department learned that a hiker had fallen 60 to 80 feet from Snowy Peak Trail near the Ventura-Los Angeles County line, a spokeswoman said.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department helped by sending a helicopter and hoist. It took rescuers more than an hour to free the man, a spokesman said. At about 5 p.m., the hiker was flown by helicopter to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita.
A hospital nursing supervisor said the man was in stable condition with possible broken bones. The hiker’s name was unavailable.
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