Search and rescue units responded to someone having difficulty breathing Tuesday morning in Towsley Canyon, Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said.
According to Esteban Benitez, a spokesman for L.A. County Fire, units were dispatched at around 9:06 a.m. and arrived on the scene in the 23800 block of the Old Road about seven minutes later.
By 9:48 a.m., first responders had rescued the individual, L.A. County Fire spokesman Giovanni Sanchez said, and were airlifting the patient to a local hospital. Benitez and Sanchez had no additional information on the patient or the patient’s condition.
