On 1/20/11 at about 4:45 PM, a passing citizen flagged-down Sheriff’s deputies and reported seeing a white truck drive off the cliff on Hwy. 1 between Jenner and Russian Gulch.  Deputies investigated further and discovered a truck located about 300 yards off Hwy. 1 and down into a deep ravine at mile-marker 23.  State Parks units, and Fire personnel from Monte Rio and Bodega Bay Fire Departments responded to the scene along with Sheriff’s Helicopter crew in “Henry-1.”
The Henry-1 crew arrived within 15 minutes of the flag-down. The pilot of Henry-1, Paul Bradley, then long-lined a trained rescue crew member down to the truck where two patients, a male and a female, both in their 20′s or 30′s, were being stabilized by deputies who had hiked down to the area.  After packaging and stabilizing the patients, they were both long-lined back up to Hwy. 1 via Henry-1 for further assessment.  This greatly reduced the time, risk and resources that would normally be associated with a traditional technical rope rescue/haul system from a cliff-side trauma scene.
The male patient was flown via REACH to a Santa Rosa hospital and the female patient was transported via ambulance.  Their identities were unknown at the scene.  Their injuries did not immediately appear to be life threatening. CHP is investigating the crash.

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