A woman was recovering Monday after spending about 16 hours pinned in a narrow rock passageway about 100 feet underground in a cave in southeastern San Diego…
A woman was recovering Monday after spending about 16 hours pinned in a narrow rock passageway about 100 feet underground in a cave in southeastern San Diego County.
Deputies, volunteers with the sheriff's Search and Rescue Division, personnel with the state Office of Emergency Services and a cave-rescue team with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department responded to the emergency, launching a lengthy effort to free the victim."It takes hours to hike into the caves, and rescuers had to inch their way into very narrow passages while slowly passing along their gear and equipment," Ford said.
"You find yourself stuck between a rock and hard place or two walls of the cave where it is so tight you can’t even turn your head to the side," Angel said describing the hiker's predicament. How the hiker got herself in that position is no surprise to Angel, who saud it could've happened to the most experienced cavers.Angel said it took two more hours to free the hiker. She was so exhausted it took Angel and several other rescuers to bring herup.The hiker and the rescue team returned to the surface at 10 a.m. next morning. A Cal Fire helicopter airlifted the woman to a safe area where a waiting ambulance treated her for exhaustion, scrapes and bruises.
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