Posted on 02/10/2010 5:10:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
A 28-year-old illegal immigrant suffering from hypothermia was rescued from halfway up Otay Mountain by a San Diego firefighting helicopter early Wednesday morning.
Copter 2 was called by Border Patrol agents about 3:30 a.m. to rescue the man, said San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque. The mountain is about 3,500 feet high, and the man was on a steep slope in a canyon area about 2,000 feet high, Luque said.
The man and a companion had crossed the border around 9 a.m. Tuesday and were trapped overnight in the rain, Luque said. The man’s friend hiked down the mountain and found some Border Patrol officers and then led them back up to show them his stricken friend.
The man was in “bad shape” and was unable to hike out, Luque said. The helicopter crew hoisted the man to safety and flew him to a hospital for treatment. “It was a life-or-death type of thing,” Luque said.
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Hussein’s fault for not putting a water station there.
Lemme guess, he and his buddy were released on their pinky swear to return for their hearing?
And who, as usual, pays the bill for this crap?
>>The helicopter crew hoisted the man to safety and flew him to a hospital for treatment.
The hospital, aka taxpayers will pay for it.
should have been a cobra gunship and just blast the alien invaders
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