{"id":99503,"date":"2018-05-30T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-falls-on-animas-city-mountain-taken-to-mercy\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:01:17","slug":"man-falls-on-animas-city-mountain-taken-to-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-falls-on-animas-city-mountain-taken-to-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Man falls on Animas City Mountain, taken to Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8589a86a-7365-403f-a3a9-59161b059c16&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8589a86a-7365-403f-a3a9-59161b059c16&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8589a86a-7365-403f-a3a9-59161b059c16&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8589a86a-7365-403f-a3a9-59161b059c16&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1850\" height=\"1792\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man who had fallen at the north end of Animas City Mountain was taken by helicopter to Mercy Regional Medical Center around 4 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Butch Knowlton, director of <a href=\"http:\/\/laplatasar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Plata County Search and Rescue<\/a>, said the call about an injured hiker or rock climber came in around midday, and it took some time before ground crews could reach the injured man.<\/p>\n<p>Knowlton said crews from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centura.org\/our-network\/flight-for-life\/our-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flight for Life<\/a> were able to get closer to the injured man first, and they were later joined by ground crews who hiked to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Knowlton said the man fell between 20 to 25 feet. He had to be extracted and raised to a cliff above him.<\/p>\n<p>Knowlton did not know the man\u2019s name or details about the man. He also did not have details about the injury the man suffered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was severe enough that he had to be raised out and removed. He was not mobile,\u201d Knowlton said.<\/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>about 20-25 feet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1152,1807],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-99503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-emergency-incident","tag-la-plata-county-search-and-rescue"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99503","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=99503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99503"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=99503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}