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Rescue at Hoyts Crossing

Posted: Aug. 22, 2012 1:52 PM PDT

It took a team of four firefighters and a rescue helicopter to lift an injured hiker out of the South Fork of the Yuba River Canyon Tuesday evening just before 6:00 PM. Rescue 84 of the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Department answered the call and an H20 helicopter completed the rescue of a hiker with a broken leg. Engineer Dean Weathers was on duty when the call from Hoyts Crossing came in.

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The ground team hiked out and returned the station. No additional patient information is available at this time.

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