Rescue 3/28/2010

A young woman, age 20, became separated from her mother while hiking in the hills above Tanoble Drive. She became lost and was unable to proceed further. She telephoned for assistance using her cell phone and AMRT and AIR-5 were called out. With assistance from AMRT members on the ground, AIR-5 was able to locate the lost hiker and lift her to safety. The AIR-5 crew landed at Farnsworth park and turned the woman and her dog over to AMRT for medical evaluation. Both the the hiker and her dog were uninjured with only minor scratches. Later in the day it was feared that her mother had also become lost but she completed her hike and AMRT members met her as she was returning to her car via Loma Alta Drive.

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.

Rescue 02-14-2010

The Altadena Mountain Rescue Team and the Sheriff's Air-5 crew rescued a man and a woman who got stuck on a steep off-trail area between Echo Mountain and the fire trail above Cobb Estate. The Altadena Mountain Rescue team was called out around 2 p.m. Sunday to assist the man and woman, said Lt. Angela Shepherd of the Altadena Sheriff's Station.

The male aged 46, and female, 38, were not lost and they were not injured when the AMRT volunteers located them, but they were on steep ground, Shepherd said.

The two persons, described as "inexperienced hikers," could not climb back to the trail on their own because of the steep terrain, Shepherd said. Air-5, a Navy surplus Sikorsky H-3, was called out, and they lifted the two to safety around 3:30 p.m., Shepherd said.

Patrol and Operations Report 11/1/2009

Received a call from 70D re: a concerned citizen reported that a man on the fire break above Cobb Estate was taking off his clothing and continuing up the fire break. Went to investigate. Hiked up the fire break and located a back pack and several articles of clothing. After review, we came to the conclusion that said pack may belong to a transient.

Drove up the Lowe Road to see if we could locate the subject and make sure he was not in need of assistance. On our way back we received another call from 70D re: a dehydrated hiker on Lower Sam who may possibly be 918...it happened to be the owner of the pack. He was assisted down and taken to the hospital.

Patrol and Operations Report 10/18/2009

Drove up the Arroyo and out the Edison Road. Passable (for now) with the Chevy Colorado, wouldn't take the F350 though. The next good rain will probably make it impassable, there were already numerous slides as all the vegetation is burned up. There was foot and bicycle traffic even with the AREA CLOSED signs posted.

They are doing lots of work up on ACH, which is still closed. Replacing guard rails and clearing storm drains and maybe making new ones. They had a large auger truck and lots of galvanized drain tubes.

El Prieto is pretty burnt, although some areas down low more or less survived. Sunset trail is totally burnt up, you can see just about the whole trail from the Lowe Road. There will be numerous slides when the rains come and the trail will most likely be wiped out. Sierra Saddle survived, but the area around it is totally burnt up.

The foot traffic gate at Pinecrest gate is open again.

We heard Fire rolling to Cobb Estate and shortly after got called out for heart attack victim 50 yards ABOVE Echo Mt. Fire was going up the trail from Cobb Estate. Team members took off up the Lowe Road with intent to hike across the Echo Mt trail. We noticed a Fire helo up in the area and by the time we got to the trailhead heard they had the victim and were on the way to Huntington.

We were going to deploy with med pack and AED and have the next crew bring litter/wheel in. We had the collapsable litter and knew they would repackage anyway for an airlift so wasn't going to deploy with it.