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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, July 23, 2009

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.