Rescue 3/4/2010

A man fell and injured his arm in Eaton Canyon near the first falls. AMRT, L.A. County Fire, and Pasadena Fire all responded to the event with County fire providing incident command. Our hasty team was first to the victim followed by fire department paramedics. As the paramedics were treating the patient's arm two additional teams from AMRT arrived on scene followed by more firefighters. AIR-5 was unable to perform a winch operation to extract the patient so it was determined that AMRT and fire would cooperate in walking the man back down the canyon and out to Pinecrest gate. Several wet stream crossings later we arrived at the gate and the man, a citizen of France who is currently residing in Princeton, New Jersey, was placed in the ambulance to get warmed up and to be further evaluated.