A man was rescued in Joshua Tree National Park Friday after he fell from rocks. According to County Fire Battalion Chief Mike Snow, the unidentified man, who was in his 40s, was scrambling on rocks near the Hall of Horrors when he fell into a crevice from an undetermined height and suffered a possible broken shoulder and leg. Morongo Basin Ambulance, Joshua Tree Search and Rescue, and County firefighters attempted to rescue him by setting up anchors and ropes to lower him to the ground, but instead, the Sheriff’s Department Air Rescue helicopter was called in to hoist the victim out of the rocks. He was taken to Desert Hospital in Palm Springs by MBA.
