Five units. Fifteen firefighters. One hiker who could not walk out.
On Tuesday, September 1, a 911 call came in at about 2 p.m. for a hiker with an ankle injury on the Lanikai Pillbox Trail. Honolulu Fire Department crews went up the short, steep trail on foot. By 2:21 p.m. they had reached her, a visitor from out of state in her 20s, and completed a medical assessment.
Then they carried her down. No helicopter. A Stokes litter, which is a rescue stretcher on a single wheel, and a crew walking it down the same steep trail they had just climbed.
Care was transferred to Honolulu EMS at about 3 p.m.
About 21 minutes from the call to her side. About an hour from the call to the ambulance. That is what years of training look like on the day they get used.
To the HFD members who worked this one: mahalo. She came a long way to hike that ridge. You got her off it.
You Can Count On Us.
Full story from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
Trail photo: Raita Futo, CC BY 2.0
Engine photo: Nesnad, CC BY 3.0
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Battle of the Badges. Police and Fire, one field, one night, and the whole place went pink.
Team Fire took the trophy. But the real opponent was never on the field.
Battle of the Badges benefits Pacific Cancer Foundation, and every dollar raised stays right here in Maui County, helping local families when they need it most.
Mahalo to everybody who played, everybody who cheered, and everybody who wore pink.
HFFA Local 1463
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Mahalo to the Maui firefighters who flew out to Spokane, Washington to help fight the fires.
When Lahaina burned, crews from Washington got on planes and came to us. This month, ours went to them.
They left their families. They worked somebody else’s worst week. Then they came home quiet, like it was nothing.
It was not nothing.
Much love and appreciation to every one of you.
HFFA Local 1463
#HFFA #IAFF #Local1463 #mauifirefighters #mahalo
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