{"id":407439,"date":"2025-11-27T03:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407439\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:20:17","slug":"helicopter-rescues-injured-hiker-on-cowles-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407439\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter rescues injured hiker on Cowles Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SDFD.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SDFD.jpg\" alt=\"helicopter\" class=\"wp-image-220153\"  \/><\/a>A San Diego Fire-Rescue helicopter. (File photo courtesy of the department)<\/p>\n<p>An injured hiker was rescued by helicopter Wednesday from Cowles Mountain, a popular hiking destination in Mission Trails Regional Park, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Fire-Rescue<\/a> personnel responded to the trailhead at Golfcrest Drive and Navajo Road in San Carlos at about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters hiked almost to the summit of San Diego\u2019s highest mountain peak before reaching the hiker who had suffered an ankle injury, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, more than 20 personnel responded to the rescue, including the helicopter and units from the La Mesa, El Cajon and Santee fire departments.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified hiker was airlifted to a landing zone on the Santee side of the mountain, where an ambulance was standing by, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>First responders cleared the scene shortly after noon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Fire-Rescue helicopter. (File photo courtesy of the department) An injured hiker was rescued by helicopter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":407440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[192004,5229,1582,276,17022,35201,19176,3549,23223,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-407439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-airlift","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-cowles-mountain","13":"tag-hiker","14":"tag-injury","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-fire-rescue","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115619511060647916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}