Injured hiker results in emergency response

An injured hiker in Towsley Canyon resulted in an emergency response from both paramedics and law enforcement personnel Friday. Bobby Block/ The Signal.
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An injured hiker in Towsley Canyon resulted in an emergency response from both paramedics and law enforcement personnel Friday.

The call came in at 2:34 p.m. on the Old Road near Towsley Canyon Road, according to Austin Bennett, a spokesman with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

“It’s a possible ankle fracture about an hour hike into Towsley,” said Bennett.

An injured hiker in Towsley Canyon resulted in an emergency response from both paramedics and law enforcement personnel Friday. Bobby Block/ The Signal.

Officials at first had called in a fire department helicopter to assist with an evacuation, but that was canceled at 2:46 p.m..

“We’ll be able to walk the patient out,” said Bennett.

A number of emergency response vehicles were parked at the base of Towsley Canyon while paramedics began their walk up to rendezvous with the hiker.

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