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Injured hiker plucked from rocks
by THE GARDEN ISLAND
Four rescue specialists from Lihu‘e Fire Station, with helicopter support, worked yesterday to evacuate a hiker who fell some 40 feet around noon Wednesday onto rocks on the Napali Coast.
An Inter-Island helicopter helped airlift the hiker, who fell while hiking about 1/2 mile on the Hanalei side of the Kalalau Valley.
The man, a 21-year-old visitor from St. Paul, Minn., had spent the night where he had landed because he possibly broke a limb. He was almost out of water and suffering heat exhaustion when rescuers arrived.
Mary Daubert, county spokeswoman, said when the man heard a fishing boat, he yelled at the fishermen, put some white paper on a tent pole and started waving until others spotted him.
The fishermen then called the Coast Guard, Daubert said.
Members of the fire department went in around 9:30 a.m. yesterday after they were dropped off by the Air-1 helicopter.
The pilot left to refuel while firefighters stayed with the man.
Rescuers then loaded him into a basket and took him to Princeville Airport, where medics took him to Wilcox Hospital.
His condition was unknown at press time.
An Inter-Island helicopter helped airlift the hiker, who fell while hiking about 1/2 mile on the Hanalei side of the Kalalau Valley.
The man, a 21-year-old visitor from St. Paul, Minn., had spent the night where he had landed because he possibly broke a limb. He was almost out of water and suffering heat exhaustion when rescuers arrived.
Mary Daubert, county spokeswoman, said when the man heard a fishing boat, he yelled at the fishermen, put some white paper on a tent pole and started waving until others spotted him.
The fishermen then called the Coast Guard, Daubert said.
Members of the fire department went in around 9:30 a.m. yesterday after they were dropped off by the Air-1 helicopter.
The pilot left to refuel while firefighters stayed with the man.
Rescuers then loaded him into a basket and took him to Princeville Airport, where medics took him to Wilcox Hospital.
His condition was unknown at press time.
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puput wrote on Apr 3, 2009 10:19 AM: