Watch: Cliffside helicopter rescue in California

SAN MATEO, Calif. (CBS) – On Thursday afternoon, CHP Helicopter H-30 was requested by the Daly Metropolis Fireplace Division to reply to Mussel Rock and help them with a cliff rescue.

A neighborhood fisherman referred to as in and reported a male sufferer clinging to a vertical cliff wall, roughly half approach down a 500 foot cliff. As a consequence of his location floor rescuers had been unable to find him.

CHP Helicopter H-30 arrived overhead and positioned the sufferer. As a consequence of his location, it was decided {that a} helicopter rescue can be the most secure and most effective method to take away the sufferer from the cliff face.

Regardless of difficult winds, the CHP Pilot maneuvered H-30 100 toes over the scene whereas a CHP paramedic concurrently hoisted a second CHP paramedic right down to the sufferer.

The sufferer was positioned right into a rescue harness and each he and the officer had been short-hauled to a close-by touchdown zone the place the sufferer was transferred from the helicopter to awaiting Daly Metropolis Fireplace and AMR personnel.

The California Freeway Patrol Golden Gate Division Air Operations unit, based mostly on the Napa County Airport, operates 4 plane (two airplanes and two helicopters) which patrol the 9 Bay Space Counties, roughly 6,923 sq. miles that’s dwelling to a residential inhabitants of greater than 7 million individuals.

The helicopter is routinely staffed with a CHP Officer/Pilot and a CHP Officer/Paramedic. The helicopter is supplied with a rescue hoist that may raise sufferers and/or rescuers to and from difficult terrain.