Erie County Sheriff John Garcia is reminding hikers to use caution while walking along the Eternal Flame Trail in Chestnut Ridge Park.<\/p>\n
This comes after two hikers sustained injuries on Saturday. The first injury happened at around 1 p.m., when a 44-year-old man from Illinois fell and called deputies at the 3-mile mark. He was transported by EMS to ECMC to be treated for a broken right ankle.<\/p>\n
At around 2 p.m., deputies of the park were called to the 20-mile mark for another injury. A 24-year-old Buffalo man had fallen and landed near a creek edge. This forced SWAT QRF to rappel down the ravine to give him aid. Orchard Park EMS transported him to Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, where he was treated for a broken left ankle and further evaluation. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Eternal Flame Trail can give even the most experienced hikers difficulty,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cIt is important to utilize good footwear and know your limits. Our deputies train year-round to be ready to respond to calls on the trail, and we were prepared this Fourth of July holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County Sheriff John Garcia is reminding hikers to use caution while walking along the Eternal Flame Trail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-236761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}