As an early summer heat wave moves into Southern California, many people will be heading to higher elevations to escape potentially triple digit heat.
Rob McMillan
"She got her foot wedged between two large rocks, and as she was trying to remove her foot from the rocks, her leg snapped," said Chris Henry with the San Bernardino County sheriff's department, who added that she had been hiking alone. Henry said he responded to another rescue call two weeks prior, where a hiker was suffering from heat exhaustion even thought the ambient air temperature was only 82 degrees.
The San Bernardino County sheriff's department was producing a public service announcement at the volunteer fire station in Mount Baldy, urging prospective hikers this summer to use caution.
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