Navy Helps Rescue Youth From Mexico Canyon
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Two North Island Naval Air Station helicopters helped rescue a Mexican youth in the rugged mountains southeast of Ensenada on Friday, airlifting the boy to that city, where he was hospitalized for injuries received in a fall.
North Island spokesman Ken Mitchell said the Navy was asked by the U.S. Coast Guard to retrieve the youth from a canyon where he had fallen while on a camping trip with a Mexican Boy Scout troop.
Helicopters from Anti-Submarine Squadron 47 at North Island participated in the rescue about 107 miles southeast of Ensenada, lowering a Mexican doctor and a Navy corpsman on hoists to the canyon floor. They then raised the injured youth on a litter to a helicopter that flew him to Ensenada, Mitchell said.
The youth, who was not identified, reportedly suffered back injuries.
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