Video: CHP air-rescues 3 people in separate incidents over the weekend

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The California Highway Patrol’s Golden Gate Division Air Operations were busy over the weekend with three daring rescues in San Francisco’s Lands End and two others in Marin County.

The incident in Lands End happened Sunday around 6 p.m. and involved an elderly man falling nearly 100 feet down a cliff, the CHP said in aVideo of the incident shows a CHP Helicopter Rescue Technician dangling from the helicopter and pushing his way through trees to reach the victim.

The elderly man was found in a "grove of trees and in a difficult to access location," the CHP said, adding that he was transported to SF General hospital for treatment. Another incident involved a hiker experiencing a medical emergency on Saturday near Wildcat Camp in Point Reyes National Seashore.

Lastly, on Saturday evening Marin County Fire received an emergency notification from a handheld GPS device on the Coastal Trail near the Marin Headlands. Emergency personnel were lowered from a helicopter at the GPS coordinates provided and found a female hiker also suffering from a medical emergency, the CHP said in aThe hiker was lifted out of the area and brought to a dirt lot where she was transported to a nearby hospital by a Marin County Fire Ambulance.that I have read and agree

 

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