Rescue crews in Southern California teamed up to airlift an injured man after his off-road vehicle, carrying three other passengers, plunged down the side of a canyon on Sunday evening.
San Bernardino County Fire said that firefighters and paramedics hiked down the side of Meyers Canyon Road near Lytle Creek to the crash site around 5 p.m., meeting a flight crew from the sheriff’s aviation team who had been lowered to the scene.
According to the department’s X post, the vehicle went over the side of a dirt road and eventually came to rest about 30 to 40 feet down in the canyon.
“The injured subject was found just outside the vehicle where it had come to rest,” said the post. “Three other occupants of the four-seat all-terrain vehicle, all adults, were uninjured.”
Video provided by SBC Fire showed crews working next to the overturned vehicle to treat and prepare the injured man.
The patient was then hoisted into a helicopter that was hovering above and taken to a regional trauma center. Officials did not immediately specify his injuries or what condition he was in.
Responding resources from Fontana and San Bernardino included two engine companies, a paramedic squad, a technical rescue crew and more.
The California Highway Patrol will be investigating the crash, and no further details were provided.
