Dramatic video reveals 2 folks being rescued from automobile after surviving 250-foot drop into California canyon

Two folks had been rescued by helicopter after their automobile plunged greater than 200 ft right into a California canyon, dramatic movies confirmed.

The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles County alongside the Angeles Forest Freeway, across the nineteenth mile marker. A car containing two folks one way or the other went over the aspect of the street, falling about 250 ft down an 800-foot slope into Monkey Canyon.

Regardless of the drop, each sufferers had been “ambulatory and in gentle misery” when rescued by the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division (LACFD) said on Twitter.  

The Particular Enforcement Bureau, a department of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, shared dramatic footage of the rescue. One thirty-second clip confirmed one of many bureau’s tactical medics hoisting an individual into the company’s helicopter. SEB additionally shared a picture of the upside-down automobile that the passengers had been rescued from. 

Extra footage confirmed the rescue staff hovering over the crash web site in a inexperienced and yellow helicopter, and supplied an exterior view of the rescue.  

“Saving lives (is) precedence 1,” the bureau wrote on Twitter. 

The bureau stated on Twitter that each sufferers had been airlifted to a neighborhood trauma heart after they had been hoisted from the car. Officers instructed CBS Los Angeles that they had been dropped at Huntington Memorial Hospital, and stated they’re aware and alert. No additional particulars on their situations had been supplied.

The folks within the automobile haven’t but been publicly recognized, and it is not clear what precipitated the crash.