Butte County Search and Rescue in California responded to an incident in the Pulga area over the weekend where a hiker and survived a 30-foot fall down a waterfall in rugged terrain.
The hiker had sustained serious injuries requiring an immediate extraction, and a short haul helicopter rescue was executed using a 150-foot extended rope. The advanced, high-risk method was required due to the remote location.
CAL FIRE/Butte County Fire assisted in the complex rescue. The patient was flown to a location near the Cresta Power House before being transferred to Enloe FlightCare for further medical treatment.
Butte County Search and Rescue is made up entirely of volunteers and is completely donor-funded. In the below video, the rescuer in the red shirt is one of the team’s volunteer members
