{"id":371350,"date":"2026-07-13T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:38:16","slug":"injured-hiker-rescued-at-aguirre-springs-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371350\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured hiker rescued at Aguirre Springs in Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The Las Cruces Fire Department&#8217;s Technical Rescue Team, along with other agencies, conducted a mountain rescue of an injured hiker at Aguirre Springs on Sunday morning, July 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 10 a.m., crews assisted a hiker who had ascended around 1,000 feet off the Aguirre Springs Trail into a gully, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The hiker reportedly injured himself and was unable to descend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Search and Rescue parties worked together to assist and provide medical care to the hiker.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;sub&gt;Las Cruces Technical Rescue Team assisted multiple agencies to aid an injured hiker at Aguirre Springs Sunday. (LCFD)&lt;\/sub&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktsm_articles_153\/3544c3ed476883a58dccce4cc8a1a998.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Las Cruces Technical Rescue Team assisted multiple agencies to aid an injured hiker at Aguirre Springs Sunday. (LCFD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials reported that three firefighters were injured during the rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The Las Cruces Fire Department&#8217;s Technical Rescue Team, along with other agencies, conducted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[131520,131522,138,140,139,1652,131521],"class_list":["post-371350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-aguirre-springs","tag-aguirre-springs-trail","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-las-cruces","tag-technical-rescue-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371350","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=371350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}