Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Team Assist on Two Weekend Calls

Santa Barbara, CA- September 21st, 2009

Hunter Rescued from Cuyama Peak

At approximately 8:45am on Saturday, September 19, 2009 the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department’s Search and Rescue Team was paged out for a rescue of an injured hunter.  A group of hunters was near the top of Cuyama Peak located in the northeastern part of Santa Barbara County near Hwy 33 when a member of the group slipped and fell approximately 150 feet down a steep cliff face.  Search and Rescue Team members assisted Santa Barbara County Fire units in transferring the patient from the SBC Fire Helicopter 308 to ground ambulance after the subject was hoisted from the cliff.  Search and Rescue units then hiked about a mile up the mountain and assisted two members of the hunting group whom had climbed down the cliff to help their fellow hunter.

Tangerine Falls Rescue

At approximately 2:45pm on Saturday, September 19, 2009 members of the Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Team were paged out to assist Montecito Fire in the rescue of a 35 year old male injured hiker near Tangerine Falls off of the Cold Springs Trail above Montecito.  The subject reportedly had slipped off a rock and suffered a foot and arm injury preventing him from walking.  Seven Search and Rescue members hiked up the canyon with five Montecito Fire personnel and helped transport the injured man in a stretcher to a location where he could be air lifted by a Santa Barbara County Fire Helicopter to the Santa Barbara Airport where the victim was transferred to a ground ambulance to the hospital.

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