After a group of four hikers became lost Saturday in a remote, mountainous region of Riverside County, a fellow hiker in their group \u2014 fearing for their safety \u2014 struck out on his own to search for them, authorities said. <\/p>\n
The four hikers were later found and rescued by units with the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office. But the man who went to help them was discovered dead at the bottom of a 150-foot rock face.<\/p>\n
The Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office said they received a call at 8:26 p.m. Saturday about the group of lost hikers near State Route 74 in Anza. The department\u2019s aviation and mountain rescue units were called out. The initial group of four lost hikers was located by air, and rescuers hoisted them to safety.<\/p>\n
The department continued the search and found the other hiker at the bottom of the steep vertical stretch of rock. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The surviving hikers were taken to the sheriff\u2019s Lake Hemet Mountain Station for medical evaluation. Their condition was not immediately known.<\/p>\n
The county Coroner\u2019s Bureau has taken over the investigation into the hiker\u2019s death. The department has not released the name of the deceased hiker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a group of four hikers became lost Saturday in a remote, mountainous region of Riverside County, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70681,18168,6129,7,9,8,6246,7244,19082,70680,70683,70682,346,70684,612,70679,3607,61585],"class_list":["post-139600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-anza","tag-aviation","tag-bottom","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-department","tag-group","tag-hiker","tag-lake-hemet-mountain-station","tag-medical-evaluation","tag-mountain-rescue-unit","tag-office","tag-other-hiker","tag-riverside-county","tag-rock-face","tag-safety","tag-state-route"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}