Man sets out to rescue lost hiker in Hawaii, then needs his own rescue, officials say
A man who set out on a challenging trail in Hawaii to help a lost hiker had to be rescued himself when he was injured and couldn’t get back down on his own, officials said.
The man was hiking on Maunawili Trail on Oahu with another man and a dog on the evening of Nov. 27 when he was hurt, the Honolulu Fire Department wrote in a news release.
The group was on the nearly 9-mile trail to help a woman and her two dogs, who were lost, officials said. Rescuers reached the hurt man at 10:15 p.m., about 40 minutes after the initial 911 call about the injury, officials said. Rescuers took the man by helicopter to a safe landing spot, where emergency medical services took over treating him, the release said.
Rescuers also found the woman and her dogs, who were taken by helicopter off the trail, officials said.
The fire department didn’t have an update on the man’s or woman’s conditions.
The trail is in Kailua, a 12-mile drive northeast of Honolulu.
This story was originally published November 29, 2024 at 1:55 PM with the headline "Man sets out to rescue lost hiker in Hawaii, then needs his own rescue, officials say."
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