Editor’s note: this article has been updated to correct the location of the accident.
A child was airlifted out of the San Gabriel Mountains by first responders with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Enforcement Bureau Sunday, authorities announced.
According to LASD, the 11-year-old trauma patient was injured in a sledding accident. The location of the accident was in Wrightwood, in the Angeles National Forest area, not at Mountain High Resort as first reported.
Details are extremely limited and it’s unclear what exactly led to the child’s injuries, but the sheriff’s department’s high-risk tactical rescue team airlifted the young patient to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles while being treated by LASD medics.
Authorities did not provide any information on the extent of the injuries the child suffered or what condition they were in when they were taken to the hospital.
In a statement to KTLA correcting the location of the accident, which occurred nearly a half mile from the resort, officials at Mountain High said the following:
“Our thoughts are with the injured individual and we wish her a speedy recovery.”
No further details have been made available at this time.
