{"id":180234,"date":"2026-02-25T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180234\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:15:06","slug":"injured-hiker-airlifted-to-hospital-after-150-foot-fall-on-franklin-mountains-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180234\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured hiker airlifted to hospital after 150-foot fall on Franklin Mountains trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 21-year-old man was rescued Thursday after he was injured hiking the Franklin Mountains. <\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the man fell from approximately 150 feet while hiking the Mammoth Rock Trail, fracturing a knee and becoming unable to walk.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/fire-damages-las-cruces-home-three-pets-rescued?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fire damages Las Cruces home, three pets rescued<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a result, first responders from both the El Paso Police and Fire Departments called in an air rescue. <\/p>\n<p>CBP&#8217;s Air and Marine Operations unit in El Paso flew a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that, working with first responders on the ground, was able to rescue the injured man and rush him to the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/1-mile-chase-ends-with-arrest-of-29-year-old-man-after-montana-vista-traffic-stop?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1-mile chase ends with arrest of 29-year-old man after Montana Vista traffic stop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 21-year-old man was rescued Thursday after he was injured hiking the Franklin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-180234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}