{"id":74847,"date":"2021-08-30T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fire-department-and-volunteers-help-injured-hiker\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:30:00","slug":"fire-department-and-volunteers-help-injured-hiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fire-department-and-volunteers-help-injured-hiker\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire department and volunteers help injured hiker"},"content":{"rendered":"

A joint rescue between Juneau Mountain Rescue and Capital City Fire\/Rescue saw an injured hiker brought down safely from a trail on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The hiker, a visitor to Juneau, had injured her ankle, but didn’t require hospitalization, said CCFR assistant chief Ed Quinto.<\/p>\n

“Up at Eagle Glacier Trail, two out-of-town couples went out there, and a female ended up injuring her ankle about a mile and half up the trail,” Quinto said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n

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One of the group went down and made contact with emergency services, Quinto said, with CCFR eventually dispatched around 6 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“JMR, along with CCFR special teams, went up there and brought her,” Quinto said. “We have a good working relationship with JMR. When they’re shorthanded, we send them people.”<\/p>\n

CCFR doesn’t typically deploy unless they have a specific location on the injured person, Quinto said, as they did in this case.<\/p>\n

“We will go as long as we know exactly where the person is,” Quinto said. “We don’t have the manpower for a search.”<\/p>\n

In this case; however, the woman’s location was known, and CCFR personnel assisted JMR in the recovery.<\/p>\n

“That trail is gnarly. It’s a pretty bad trail,” Quinto said. “The guys went up there in the dusk and came down in the dark.”<\/p>\n

The woman did not require medical assistance, Quinto said.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hiker had injured an ankle and required assistance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":74848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75,366],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-74847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-search-and-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74847"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=74847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}