{"id":382863,"date":"2026-07-22T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382863\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:37:08","slug":"el-paso-fire-department-border-patrol-work-to-rescue-franklin-mountains-hiker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382863\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Fire Department, Border Patrol work to rescue Franklin Mountains hiker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A hiker in critical condition was rescued from the Franklin Mountains in Northeast El Paso Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Fire Department, crews were stationed at 2740 Gunnison Drive at the base of the Franklin Mountains as they worked to rescue a hiker down to bring a hiker down Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>At around 1:40 p.m., crews made contact with the hiker, and by 2:12 p.m., the hiker was reportedly rushed to the hospital as first responders said they were in critical condition, meaning they suffered life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>A Border Patrol helicopter helped with the rescue, flying the hiker to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/authorities-confirm-two-killed-in-tuesday-night-crash-on-loop-375-in-east-el-paso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Authorities confirm two killed in Tuesday night crash on Loop 375 in East El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/deputies-arrest-man-accused-of-stealing-repossessed-dodge-charger-from-el-paso-lot?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deputies arrest man accused of stealing repossessed Dodge Charger from El Paso lot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.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 hiker in critical condition was rescued from the Franklin Mountains in Northeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-382863","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\/382863","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=382863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}