{"id":10983,"date":"2012-04-05T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T02:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2012-06-30T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:06:14","slug":"search-and-rescue-team-meets-cliff-side-crash-victim-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/04\/05\/search-and-rescue-team-meets-cliff-side-crash-victim-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Search and rescue team meets cliff side crash victim in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(L to R) Reserve Deputies Robert Sheedy, Cyndy Moyneur and Jason Johnson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ANTELOPE VALLEY – A woman who spent the night on a snow covered hillside after her truck plunged 350 feet down the side of an embankment, met the team who helped saved her life Wednesday, according to a news release by the Sheriff\u2019s Headquarters Bureau. Reserve Deputies Jason Johnson, Cyndy Moyneur, and Robert Sheedy visited the woman (reportedly identified as 56-year-old Tracy Granger) at her hospital bedside Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The following is the news release from the Sheriff\u2019s Headquarter\u2019s Bureau:<\/p>\n

On Sunday, March 25, 2012, at approximately 7:45 p.m., a female adult resident from Juniper Hills was driving on Angeles Forest Highway near mile marker 10.47 when she hit ice on the roadway which resulted in her vehicle sliding off the roadway. The vehicle rolled over down a rugged hillside and came to rest 350 feet over the edge.<\/p>\n

When the victim was reported missing by her husband, the Montrose Search and Rescue Team, along with Antelope Valley Search and Rescue were activated and implemented a grid search for the driver at approximately 7 a.m., Monday March 26. At approximately 9:30 a.m., Reserve Deputy Jason Johnson located recent tire marks in the snow which led up and over the snow-covered dirt berm. Deputy Johnson then looked over the cliff and he saw a vehicle down the hillside which matched the description of the missing person\u2019s white Ford pickup.<\/p>\n

Deputy Johnson maneuvered his way down the rugged, snow covered hillside and located the victim who was outside of her vehicle and laying in the snow. The victim was cold, wet and in critical condition and was given life-saving medical aid by Deputy Johnson. Soon after, Reserve Deputies Cyndy Moyneur and Robert Sheedy, along with Sheriff\u2019s Air 5 paramedics arrived and joined in providing life-saving medical attention. Once the victim was stabilized, she was loaded into the rescue basket, where she was air lifted to Huntington Memorial Hospital. The Victim was admitted in critical condition.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at 2 p.m., Reserve Deputy Johnson, Reserve Deputy Moyneur, and Reserve Deputy Janet Henderson visited the victim at her hospital bedside. The victim\u2019s condition has improved to the point that she will soon be transferred to another hospital for more follow up care.<\/p>\n

When the victim met her rescuers at her hospital bedside, she became teary- eyed and she was extremely happy to meet her heroes face-to-face. Although still a little vague, the victim remembered driving on Angeles Forest Highway and hitting ice on the roadway. She said she attempted to correct her steering but knew she was headed for the edge. The victim said she could not stop the truck and it ended up rolling over the edge, turning over onto its rooftop and sliding down the hillside. Once the truck hit the bottom of the canyon it rolled back over onto its wheels and landed in a large burned out shrub bush. Believing that her vehicle might catch fire, the victim crawled out of the passenger compartment where she remained until located by Deputy Johnson.<\/p>\n

During her meeting with the deputies, the victim said \u201cif they would not have found me, I would not have survived.\u201d Once she is able to, the victim said she wants to go back to the location with the members of the Montrose Search and Rescue Team to look first hand at the location. The victim and her husband are in very good spirits and very thankful to the Reserve Deputies and the role they played in saving her life.<\/p>\n

Members of the Montrose Search and rescue Team are Reserve Deputies who are volunteers and are paid $1 per year. These members are available at a moment\u2019s notice to assist in searches and technical rescues within the County of Los Angeles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANTELOPE VALLEY – A woman who spent the night on a snow covered hillside after her truck plunged 350 feet down the side of an embankment, met the team who helped saved her life Wednesday, according to a news release by the Sheriff\u2019s Headquarters Bureau. Reserve Deputies Jason Johnson, Cyndy Moyneur, and Robert Sheedy visited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}