{"id":65730,"date":"2019-07-12T02:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T02:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-injured-in-fall-rescued-from-la-plata-canyon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:39:29","slug":"woman-injured-in-fall-rescued-from-la-plata-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-injured-in-fall-rescued-from-la-plata-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman injured in fall rescued from La Plata Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8f1cd0b7-5689-410a-97b8-f8366303d6e8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"A 23-year-old woman was rescued by La Plata County Search and Rescue and Flight for Life on Thursday after falling in La Plata Canyon.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A 23-year-old woman was rescued by La Plata County Search and Rescue and Flight for Life on Thursday after falling in La Plata Canyon.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 23-year-old woman who fell about 20 feet in La Plata Canyon near the waterfall at the turnoff to Columbus Basin was loaded onto a Flight for Life helicopter shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday for transport to Mercy Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Corkish, spokesman for La Plata County Search and Rescue, said the woman, whom he declined to name, suffered a hip injury. He didn\u2019t know if she suffered any broken bones.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was hiking with three other people, and the call requesting assistance from search and rescue came in about 4:10 p.m., Corkish said.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter left the scene at 6:20 p.m. en route for Mercy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was in good spirits. You\u2019re always in good spirits when the calvary gets there,\u201d Corkish said.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen emergency responders assisted in the rescue from Fort Lewis Mesa Fire Protection District, Durango Fire Protection District and La Plata County Search and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life gives hiker lift to Mercy Regional Medical Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6185,5737,6175,5985,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[1152,28,658,1807,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emergency-incident","category-headlines","category-hiking","category-la-plata-county-search-and-rescue","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-emergency-incident","tag-headlines","tag-hiking","tag-la-plata-county-search-and-rescue","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93026,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65730\/revisions\/93026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65730"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}