{"id":104600,"date":"2020-09-03T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104600"},"modified":"2020-09-02T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T22:08:56","slug":"navy-helicopter-team-rescues-hiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104600","title":{"rendered":"Navy helicopter team rescues hiker&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104601 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mh60-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"231\" \/><br \/>\n<em>An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island prepares to land during an Alpine Search and Rescue training mission in the Olympic Mountains. (MC2 Marc Cuenca\/Navy)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>&#8230;hurt in Olympic Mountains<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>MOUNT TOWNSEND, Wash. \u2014 A helicopter crew from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island rescued a hiker who was severely injured in a fall Sunday evening in the Buckhorn Wilderness area of the Olympic Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy chopper crew responded after receiving an alert from the Jefferson County Sheriff\u2019s Office about a hiker who had fallen off a ridgeline at Mount Townsend, broke both legs and had a potential traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>Once the crew reached the location they hoisted the couple aboard the helicopter and flew them to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue crew contacted the injured hiker\u2019s wife, who helped guide the helicopter crew to their location and provided valuable information about approaching inclement weather conditions, Navy officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Navy &#8220;chopper&#8221; crew? *sigh* Another BZ to the Whidbey SAR boys and girls for a save, and to the wife for keeping cool under duress. Read the rest here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/09\/01\/navy-helicopter-team-rescues-hiker-hurt-in-olympic-mountains\/\">Navy Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island prepares to land during an &hellip; <a title=\"Navy helicopter team rescues hiker&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104600\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy helicopter team rescues hiker&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,119,285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bravo-zulu","category-navy","category-search-and-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104602,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104600\/revisions\/104602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}