PORT ANGELES — First responders worked Thursday evening to rescue a man who was injured while hiking the Little River Trail in Olympic National Park.
The man was believed to have broken his leg and fell into water about a mile up the trail, said Mike DeRousie, chief of Clallam Fire District No. 2.
The fire department had five firefighters and a medic responding and a park ranger was en route to the scene, he said.
“They are just about to the patient now,” DeRousie said at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
The call went out at about 3:55 p.m.
The man slipped and fell into a creek. Crews were concerned about a risk of hypothermia.
DeRousie said at about 5:10 p.m. that four ONP park rangers were near to the hiker.
The person the man was hiking with was forced to leave him and walk back to a nearby road to call 9-1-1 because of poor cellphone service, DeRousie said.
The name of the hiker was not yet available.
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