[UPDATE 7:34 p.m.] Rescue of Female Hiker Ongoing on Lost Coast
Shelter Cove firefighters prep their ATV for the rescue in September of 2019. [Photo from Cheryl Antony]
“At first, they couldn’t get to the patient because the tide was too high,” she said at about 6:35 p.m. “The Coast Guard helicopter came in then…From what we heard last, they have picked up the patient and are bringing them to Shelter Cove airport.”
A ground ambulance is on-site at the airfield with a crew ready to tend to the ill woman. However, Antony is concerned. “The wind is blowing like crazy and the sky is completely grey going to the east,” she told us.
“The Incident Commander is at the upper parking lot,” Antony explained. “He can see the ATVs and is telling everyone what to do and where to go.”
Emergency personnel are working hard to bring the woman to medical treatment. We’ll update as we learn more.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 7:27 p.m.: Supervisor Michelle Bushnell who spoke with Shelter Cove Fire Chief Nick Pape says,
SCFD, SoHum [County Technical Rescue Team], Telegraph Ridge [Volunteer Fire Department], and the USCG rescued a possibly hypothermic hiker off the lost coast trail in the area of Shipman Creek. 911 came in at 4:33 PM patient was rescued at 6:45 PM. Shelter Cove Beach Rescue units were able to make it to within 1 mile of the reported location before the tide forced them hike the rest of the way on foot. Rescuers made patient contact about the same time as the USCG helicopter was overhead and they were able to assist the USCG with loading the patient into the helicopter and safely transport them to a waiting ambulance at the Shelter Cove airport.
ATV at the rescue this evening. [Photo provided by Chief Pape]
The Coast Guard helicopter brought the patient to Shelter Cove. [Photo by Shelter Cove Fire]
UPDATE: The crew is home safe:
The crew is home safe. [Photo by Shelter Cove Fire]
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I’m confused. Why doesn’t the helicopter just take her to a medical facility?
Coast guard does not usually have medical professionals on board, they evacuate patients and bring them to the ambulance at SCVFD
Pilot didn’t want to fly over Garberville maybe. Leftover dope growers scream, track flight paths and, generally, jump through their a-holes at the mention of the word helicopter.
Dogbiter- I doubt a life-flight crew is concerned about the personal anxieties of a few remaining un-permitted growers – esp. during the off-season.
The Coasties are obvious. Bright red orange, the Dauphins have a certain sound. Besides, nobody is worried about choppers anymore.. I heard em, saw them beelining for the cove, and thought, “hm, there’s a rescue… That things freaking awesome!”
Wow ignorant much???
Ive never heard anyone complain about the coasties or life flight. Theyre helpful and respectful in their flights over our rural areas. If they get low I know someone needs rescue.
Pretty easy to see the coast guards color of aircraft, and they dont fly so low in the hills that you can see the smirk on their face while they use their chopper to blow the plastuc off your greenhouse.
Mine had no cannabis that time, only food.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
Military choppers with large antennaes off the front breaking aviation rules. All the time with no recourse.
Large antennas. Get a clue man, it’s called a midair refueling nozzle. Clueless much? PS the military can break the rules in terms of flight height, etc. To dam bad if you don’t like it. And the growers get no sympathy for getting their greenhouses torn to shreds. It’s called the cost of doing business and they just got their non income tax paying azzes taxed, good. It’s like the green rush schmucks who brag about eating at high end trendy restaurants. Utter fools, they think they are getting one over on the man when in reality, the restaurant owner just scammed them out of their untaxed money, hence, they got taxed. Too funny indeed. PS We hire the military to kill people and break things, not to soothe green rushers hurt feelers about torn greenhouses, broken plants, and freaked out pets. Bwahahaha.
Sorry. Just doesn’t happen. Nobody wants a green house plastic to fly up into the rotors. But the most important thing to address:
So, people telling you they eat at high end trendy restaurants? Do they do that to you all the time? That’s a crazy unintended consequence of the green rush: restaurant bragging. Do they talk about buffets, or fast food windows? Do those kinda cool food trucks count? Which restaurant in Garberville are they bragging about now?
A mass rescue and helicopter for someone who is dehydrated? Am I missing something??? and why weren’t they drinking water? How does one get dehydrated on a 26 mile hike with like a water source practically every few miles….glad the person is ok but also I hope they learn a lesson from this because it could have been completely prevented!
Maybe dehydrated can write a check for about 15k to cover the cost of it’s rescue?
Why do you give a shit? Your share is maybe 5¢. One day it might be your turn any way. Dehydration takes a long time to fix. People are warned off of drinking from creeks in the King Range. The creeks on the North end have cows upstream, and I’ve known people to get ghiarddia (sp?) From them. I’d drink water out of a lot of spots in the hills, but, in any case, it don’t matter if you’re puking it up.
Any seasoned backpacker brings a water pump and hydrates on a regular basis. None pack water in an attempt to not drink from the local creek.
I “give a shit” because all this expense to keep bad genes in the pool. Darwin should rule. In case you haven’t noticed (just read comments here on a daily basis) the human race (sic) is getting stupider and stupider. Time people start paying for their stupidity.
Anybody planning on taking a hike of any length should take a water filter with them..
Rescuers are paid the same, whether they rescue someone or not. Plus, it keeps them trained.
Yes
Dehydration isn’t necessarily from someone not hydrating It can be from severe vomiting and or gastrointestinal related.
The article mentions hypothermia and vomiting, the vomiting could cause dehydration if you cant keep liquids down.
Coast guard just landed at St Joes at 8:45pm?? Not the same?
How do we know she’s a woman, and why does it matter?
“report of a woman hiking with a group of four that was dehydrated and vomiting”
“ready to tend to the ill woman”
“Emergency personnel are working hard to bring the woman to medical treatment”
Other than that, you’re right, it is kind of ambiguous.
Real subtle…
Stupid waste of time and money. Don’t have yer shit together? Don’t hike remote places and expect millionaire services! Emergency response is propaganda scam that has allowed the total militarization of government at every level.
Safe now, right?
“Emergency response is propaganda scam that has allowed the total militarization of government at every level.”
Jeez you don’t get out much. You should go meet the folks in Shelter Cove who are involved in the Fire Dept.! There wouldn’t be a need for emergency response if humans didn’t get in trouble! You might be confusing the militarization of Law Enforcement, with other types of emergency responders. For instance that silly Bearcat armored truck. Probably been used for real a couple times. Eureka fire engines roll out everyday, all day and night. The Sheriffs snowcat is a more rescue oriented, and probably gets used more than the armored vehicle.
Yes more funding for emergency response and fire and less for LE or at least more citizen oversight and approval of how LE spend tax dollars.
A very good start.
What about that boat???
Talk about a waste of money.
I get out plenty and spending millions nationwide “saving” idiots who create their own personal adventure “emergency” is a scam that diverts attention and creates a easily understood and recognized (after 75 years of TV cop shows) feel-good distraction propaganda.
While cops all over USA are busy Not saving homeless people, not saving black drivers of older cars, not saving kids being shot at school, not arresting white collar criminals Ever, but they rough up, handcuff and search kids at school.
Rescuing mostly rich white people on vacation is a public whitewash campaign to turn your attention away from the dreadful violence and oppression of armed violent social overseers known as cops, sherrifs, coasties, armt, navy, marine, airforce all if them are trained muderous violent thugs.
Notice I did Not include any VFD’s thats because the VFD’s good neighborly reputations are ridden and used by the mercenary armed forces called cops.
I didn’t read about any law enforcement involvment
Thank You and Shout Out to the brave and awesome Coast Guard, and to all the dedicated, also brave and awesome volunteer fire and EMS responders…!!!
You all rock…!!!
Respect to you all!
I also hope the patient recovers quickly…
I’m very glad and appreciative that she was rescued, whoever she is.
That’s a difficult hike….
My wive and I hiked it from Mattole Beach to Shelter Cove 40 years back.Beautiful trip,and she was pregnant with are first born
Props…!!!
I actually never hiked it all the way, either direction… But I’ve hiked it a few times pretty far, in both directions.
40 years ago, I might have made it, but it’s definitely not something I would consider trying now…
I’d put it on my bucket list, but I’d probably kick the bucket along the way…
Humboldt County is so incredibly lucky to have such a coordinated response team. Thank You once again …
That’s one expensive glass of water.
Lookin bueno so far. Thanks responders.
It might be a bad time for the flu on a hike…
Thank God for the Shelter Cove Fire Department and the men and women who staff it, the Southern Humboldt Technical Rescue Team, the Telegraph Ridge Volunteer Fire Department, and our brave men and women of the USCG. Every single one of you is a hero in my book! I am sure the woman survivor would certainly agree. Very nice photos especially of the crew. A wonderful ending to a situation that could have been tragic.
Wow just wow. This isn’t Disneyland folks. I hope the rescued party is billed for these services WHICH LOCAL TAXPAYERS FUND. This is wild remote landscapes. Know your limits and do not exceed them. If you’ve never hiked further than 15 miles in a day in rough terrain this is not the place to practice. (And thank you responders. I am very glad you are there to help these idiots.)