{"id":42479,"date":"2025-12-30T02:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-fall-at-muizenberg-near-baileys-kloof\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:24:53","slug":"fatal-fall-at-muizenberg-near-baileys-kloof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-fall-at-muizenberg-near-baileys-kloof\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal fall at Muizenberg near Bailey\u2019s Kloof."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) teams were called to Muizenberg on Sunday morning following a serious fall near Bailey&rsquo;s Kloof. <\/p>\n<p>A hiker fell several metres while scrambling above a trail and was found critically injured. <\/p>\n<p>A small team on board the Western Cape Government Health and Wellness EMS \/ Air Mercy Service (AMS) rescue helicopter was deployed to the scene, where rescuers worked swiftly to stabilise the patient. <\/p>\n<p>Advanced medical care was provided by a Western Cape Government Health and Wellness EMS paramedic on site, and the hiker was then airlifted to hospital for further treatment. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the morning, teams were also called to Lion&rsquo;s Head after a 52-year-old visitor from Bloemfontein mis-stepped and fell while descending from the summit. Rescuers on board the rescue helicopter were hoisted down to the patient&rsquo;s location, where she was assessed and treated by a Western Cape Government Health and Wellness EMS paramedic before being flown to&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75930&#038;page=fatal-fall-at-muizenberg-near-bailey-s-kloof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) teams were called to Muizenberg on Sunday morning following a serious fall near Bailey&rsquo;s Kloof. A hiker fell several metres while scrambling above a trail and was found critically injured. A small team on board the Western Cape Government Health and Wellness EMS \/ Air Mercy Service (AMS) rescue helicopter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42480,"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\/608893706_1308746371299075_809704088320710678_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-42479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-western-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/608893706_1308746371299075_809704088320710678_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42479","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=42479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}