Lost hiker airlifted out of forest by fire rescue copter
Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i County fire rescue personnel on Tuesday airlifted a lost hiker to safety from a forested area in Kalapana.
The 22-year-old hiker had used a cell phone to call for help.
The man had been lost in the forest makai of the 19-mile marker on Highway 130 for three or four hours. He had no shirt, water or food and it was approaching nightfall, the fire department said.
Rescue personnel on a helicopter directed the hiker to a clearing, picked him up and flew him back to the highway just before 7 p.m.
The man was uninjured.
