Hiker with Heat Related Illness Rescued from Eaton Canyon Sunday

Members of the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team assisted Sunday in the rescue of a 22-year-old woman who had suffered heat-related injuries while hiking in the Eaton Canyon with a 23-year-old male companion.

The AMRT was called at about 12:45 p.m. for the rescue of the woman who was first reported to be suffering a medical emergency near the first waterfall at Eaton Canyon in the Angeles National Forest. Los Angeles Fire County Fire Department units along with a Sheriff’s Air Rescue 5 helicopter were also in the area.

The helicopter located the woman canyon-bottom and advised the AMRT members to hike to the area and assist the hiker, who was in moderate distress from heat-related illness. The team also assisted Air Rescue 5 in securing a clear area for hoist rescue of the hiker.

As soon as she was hoisted out of the canyon, the helicopter flew the hiker to Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, as the Altadena rescuers assisted the male hiker, a Panorama City resident, out of the canyon and drove him to his vehicle at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center.

The male hiker was not injured and neither hiker was in the closure area.

The AMRT continues to advise hikers to hydrate often even when on a relatively short hike with some shade.