{"id":42413,"date":"2025-12-27T02:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rescue-of-an-injured-hiker-after-a-fall-at-hoopoe-falls-in-oribi-gorge\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T02:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:08:02","slug":"rescue-of-an-injured-hiker-after-a-fall-at-hoopoe-falls-in-oribi-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rescue-of-an-injured-hiker-after-a-fall-at-hoopoe-falls-in-oribi-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue of an injured hiker after a fall at Hoopoe Falls in Oribi Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Med~Evac, together with Fire &amp; Rescue, are currently en route to assist a hiker at Hoopoe Falls in Oribi Gorge, who is believed to have sustained a suspected dislocated knee after a fall at the waterfall.<\/p>\n<p>The trail is a moderately challenging route under normal conditions and presents added difficulty when carrying the specialised equipment required to safely access, stabilise, and extract a patient from the area.<\/p>\n<p>The teams are trained and equipped for operations in rugged terrain and are working carefully to ensure the safety of both the patient and rescue personnel.<\/p>\n<p>An update will follow once the patient has been located and assessed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75897&#038;page=rescue-of-an-injured-hiker-after-a-fall-at-hoopoe-falls-in-oribi-gorge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Med~Evac, together with Fire &amp; Rescue, are currently en route to assist a hiker at Hoopoe Falls in Oribi Gorge, who is believed to have sustained a suspected dislocated knee after a fall at the waterfall. The trail is a moderately challenging route under normal conditions and presents added difficulty when carrying the specialised equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/603085852_1440581721066634_2801401451082764602_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/603085852_1440581721066634_2801401451082764602_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}