Honolulu firefighters made two separate helicopter rescues of hikers with medical issues at Diamond Head Crater Trail today.<\/p>\n
The first call came in at 11:44 a.m. for a teen hiker experiencing a medical emergency at the top of the trail. Six units with 18 personnel responded.<\/p>\n
Firefighters climbed up the trail on foot and reached the teen at 12:09 p.m. to conduct a medical assessment and provide basic life support.<\/p>\n
HFD\u2019s Air 1 helicopter then airlifted the teen to a nearby landing zone, where care was transferred to Honolulu Emergency Medical Services.<\/p>\n
EMS evaluated the 14-year-old girl on the scene, but she declined transport to a hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n
While rescuing the teen, firefighters at about 12:30 p.m. found a male hiker in his 30s who also needed rescue on the trail.<\/p>\n
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He was experiencing a \u201cmedical complaint\u201d and was unable to descend on his own.<\/p>\n
Firefighters also airlifted him to the nearby landing zone, where care was transferred to EMS.<\/p>\n
Paramedics evaluated him on site, and he also declined transport to a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honolulu firefighters made two separate helicopter rescues of hikers with medical issues at Diamond Head Crater Trail today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-779038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779038","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=779038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}