{"id":45822,"date":"2026-04-13T06:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hiker-rescued-from-the-kloof-gorge-area\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:59:33","slug":"hiker-rescued-from-the-kloof-gorge-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hiker-rescued-from-the-kloof-gorge-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker rescued from the Kloof Gorge area."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SARZA was activated following a request for assistance from Krantzkloof Ezemvelo staff regarding a hiker who had reportedly fallen ill within the Kloof Gorge area.<\/p>\n<p>A coordinated response was established involving multiple agencies, including Metro Police Search and Rescue, EThekwini Fire Department, ALS Paramedics, KZN Mountain Rescue Club, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, EMRS, and SARZA.<\/p>\n<p>SARZA along with members from the other teams deployed and made entry into the gorge on foot, to reach the patient. On arrival, the patient was found in the care of park rangers. Medical assessments indicated a suspected case of appendicitis.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was secured in a Stokes basket, and a structured carry-out was conducted by all responding teams over approximately 2km to the designated extraction point.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reaching the top, the patient was transferred to paramedics for continued care and stabilisation. Thereafter, the patient was transported to hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>All Operations&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77027&#038;page=hiker-rescued-from-the-kloof-gorge-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARZA was activated following a request for assistance from Krantzkloof Ezemvelo staff regarding a hiker who had reportedly fallen ill within the Kloof Gorge area. A coordinated response was established involving multiple agencies, including Metro Police Search and Rescue, EThekwini Fire Department, ALS Paramedics, KZN Mountain Rescue Club, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, EMRS, and SARZA. SARZA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45823,"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\/670402495_122225106158348613_4084644107303921726_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-45822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/670402495_122225106158348613_4084644107303921726_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45822","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=45822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}