Rescue in Idyllwild Saturday night

[cynthia23]

I"m up in Idyllwild this week and tonight there is what seems to be a helicopter rescue in progress--emergency vehicles parked at the bottom of the Deer Springs TH and a helicopter flying up on the ridge. The helicopter just flew away. Hope that means they found/rescued the person Does anyone know what happened? There was an insane amount of people in town today and parked at the TH; I"m certainly not surprised there would be a rescue. Hope all is okay now.

[cynthia23]

Hm. Well the helicopter came back and again went to the same location, which from my somewhat blocked position in a house in Pine Cove, appears to be on the upper part of Devil's Slide. Then after a few minutes they left and flew away, I think to the staging area with the ambulance. I"m not sure why they have made two trips, maybe there is a lot of people?
Hopefully someone reading this actually knows what is happening. And hopefully all is well now. It's nearly dark.

edit an hour later--they came back again, to the same spot, and then flew away, not to the staging area. Maybe they are finishing up--let's hope it's all finished and everything is okay now. It's completely dark now.

[Ulysses]

We heard the helos and sirens too. Article on The Press Enterprise (vague as always) said there was a rescue of an "injured climber on Suicide Rock. Pretty typical weekend in IDY. Just thankful it wasn't a fire.

[cynthia23]

So that's what is was. Well, I'm glad whoever it was was rescued, and it sounds relatively minor. I don't subscribe to the PE, so thanks for that update, Ulysses.

[halhiker]

http://patch.com/california/palmdesert/ ... refighters