{"id":239779,"date":"2026-03-27T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:03:07","slug":"authorities-airlift-stranded-hiker-from-california-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239779\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Airlift Stranded Hiker From California Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A stranded hiker was rescued from Black Star Canyon in Orange County, California, on Tuesday, March 24, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) dispatched a helicopter to assist the hiker, who was uninjured but unable to make it out on his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage released by the agency shows crews using a \u201chot seat\u201d harness to airlift the hiker to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf you\u2019re heading into the backcountry and run into trouble \u2014 we\u2019ve got your back!\u201d the agency wrote on Facebook. Credit: Orange County Fire Authority via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stranded hiker was rescued from Black Star Canyon in Orange County, California, on Tuesday, March 24, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61926,7,9,8,611,71209],"class_list":{"0":"post-239779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-black-star-canyon","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-orange-county","13":"tag-orange-county-fire-authority"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239779","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=239779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}