This morning the Honolulu Fire Department rescued an injured hiker on Koko Head.<\/p>\n
HFD received a 911 call at 10:08 a.m. that a female hiker in her 40s suffered and was unable to make it down the steep trail on her own.<\/p>\n
According to a media release, the department dispatched six units staffed with 18 personnel. The first unit arrived on scene at 10:18 a.m. and firefighter made their way up the trail on foot.<\/p>\n
The second arriving unit secured a nearby landing zone to prepare for air operations.<\/p>\n
Once firefighters reached the injured hiker, they conducted a medical assessment and provided \u201cbasic life support.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hiker was ultimately hoisted into a helicopter and safely transported to the nearby landing zone, where medical care was transferred to Emergency Medical Services at 11:12 a.m.<\/p>\n
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In HFD\u2019s news release, it urged hikers to be careful and realistically assess their fitness and hiking abilities before hitting a trail.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompare your level of fitness, ability, and experience with the trail description,\u201d the department said. \u201cBe practical and realistic. There are a wide variety of trails in Hawaii, so pick one that suits your level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning the Honolulu Fire Department rescued an injured hiker on Koko Head. HFD received a 911 call…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-371924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}