A middle-aged hiker was found dead in the Hollywood Hills Saturday afternoon after an attempted rescue by air, officials said. <\/p>\n
The man, whose identity had not yet been released by the county coroner\u2019s office, was believed to be in his 50s, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. <\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an alert at 6:42 p.m. at a report of a hiker in grave medical condition off Nicholas Canyon Road near Hollywood Boulevard. At least 26 fire personnel responded to the incident.<\/p>\n
An LAFD helicopter lowered first responders by helicopter to his location where theytried to help him, officials said. The hiker was declared dead shortly after. <\/p>\n
The department reported the man died at the scene, but fire officials were not able to determine whether the unidentified man suffered from a medical condition, or what caused his death, according to a statement issued by the LAFD by 7:26 p.m.<\/p>\n
A coroner\u2019s department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A middle-aged hiker was found dead in the Hollywood Hills Saturday afternoon after an attempted rescue by air,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20769,2475,43597,6246,16161,143452,143453,48,52,51,143451,47,50,49,3843,1555,143449,143454,3335,224,143450],"class_list":["post-350760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-air","tag-alert","tag-county-coroner","tag-department","tag-first-responder","tag-grave-medical-condition","tag-hollywood-hills-hiker","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lafd-helicopter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-police-department","tag-man","tag-middle-aged-hiker","tag-nicholas-canyon-road","tag-official","tag-p-m","tag-rescue-attempt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350760","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=350760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}