California Highway Patrol Officer, Severely Injured By Helicopter Blades While Rescuing Hiker 7/9/12

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Interesting twist of fate. I hope the officer has a speedy recovery

Tony Stanley, California Highway Patrol Officer, Severely Injured By Helicopter Blades While Rescuing Hiker

The rotor blades of a helicopter struck a California Highway Patrol officer, severely wounding him as he worked to rescue an injured hiker stranded in rugged, remote terrain, officials said.

And in an unlikely twist, the Highway Patrol on Monday credited the hiker, a military doctor who suffered a broken leg in a fall, with helping to save Officer Tony Stanley's life.

Kilburn's friend Dan Grasso, of Sunnyvale, and hikers from a Santa Cruz youth group carried the injured doctor down an embankment in the forest near Big Bear Lake so he could provide medical aid to the injured CHP officer.

The team of improbable heroes, including Elizabeth Fitch and Bryce Harbert, both of Santa Cruz, and the CHP pilot, Officer Brian Henderson, loaded the critically injured Stanley onto the helicopter. And as the single-engine helicopter made the 41-mile flight to a Redding hospital, Fitch held IV bags and applied pressure to slow the injured officer's bleeding while Kilburn directed, said Fredrick, the CHP spokesman.

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Wow.....