{"id":510374,"date":"2026-01-12T07:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:55:28","slug":"injured-female-hiker-airlifted-off-camelback-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510374\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured female hiker airlifted off Camelback Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 An injured female hiker was airlifted off Camelback Mountain on Saturday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Phoenix Fire Department, crews responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/5PQCgwhNbspL7mLj9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the mountain<\/a> for reports of an injured hiker around 10:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters found the hiker around 1 mile up the Echo Canyon Trail and discovered she had an injury to her lower extremity that prevented her from making her way back down the trail.<\/p>\n<p>Crews decided to use the Firebird 10 helicopter to safely extract her from the mountain, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A female hiker was airlifted off of Camelback Mountain\u2019s Echo Canyon Trail on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf9: Phoenix Fire Department <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xhvNpTO5dD\">pic.twitter.com\/xhvNpTO5dD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KTAR News 92.3 (@KTAR923) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KTAR923\/status\/2010083697559802085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Phoenix Fire, she was evaluated and then taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition to receive further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/injured-hiker-camelback-mountain\/5804638\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" height=\"44\" width=\"365\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"830\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 An injured female hiker was airlifted off Camelback Mountain on Saturday morning, authorities said. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":510375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[7155,5229,5643,1587,316,1589,7154,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-510374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115881058304331399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510374","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=510374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}