{"id":463524,"date":"2026-09-14T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463524\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:14:14","slug":"injured-climber-rescued-from-700-foot-cliff-in-sierra-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463524\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured climber rescued from 700-foot cliff in Sierra Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789406054_210_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, September 14, 2026 4:27PM<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was involved in a dramatic rescue of an injured climber from a 700-foot cliff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CALIFORNIA (KFSN) &#8212; Dramatic video has been released of the rescue of an injured climber from a 700-foot cliff at Courtright Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The CHP Coastal Division Air Operations received a request for the rescue Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The aircraft responded from its base at Paso Robles Airport and headed to the southwestern area of the Sierra Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A climber had fallen off a steep rock face and was in urgent need of medical care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The man was hoisted and taken to an awaiting ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Various agencies responded, including the Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, CAL FIRE, Shaver Lake Volunteer Fire Department and the Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was involved in a dramatic rescue of an injured climber from a 700-foot cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, September 14, 2026 4:27PM The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was involved in a dramatic rescue of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[182541,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-463524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-182541","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463524","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=463524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}