A hiker was being hoisted to safety Wednesday after falling and sustaining non-life-threatening injuries on Tujunga hillside.
Fire crews responded to the area between Graveyard Truck Trail and Haines Canyon Mountainway around 4:25 p.m. on a report of an injured hiker, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart.
“LAFD Air Operations worked in close coordination with the call taker from Metro Fire Communications on the phone with the reporting party to help guide them to the hiker’s location far up the hillside, near the top of a ridge,” Stewart said in a statement.
A rescuer was lowered from an LAFD helicopter to carry out the hoist operation and take the patient to a hospital.