{"id":183479,"date":"2024-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183479"},"modified":"2024-05-23T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:18:40","slug":"tennessee-national-guard-rescues-hiker-in-smoky-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183479","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee National Guard Rescues Hiker in Smoky Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Sgt. 1st Class Cassandra Antes, a paramedic assigned to Task Force Smokey, prepares to be hoisted down to rescue an injured hiker May 20, 2024, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 A UH-60 Black Hawk medical flight crew from the Tennessee National Guard rescued a severely injured hiker in a remote part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park May 20.<\/p>\n

Shortly before 7 p.m., the Tennessee National Guard and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency were notified that a hiker needed immediate medical assistance. The hiker was located more than 5,000 feet above sea level at Icewater Spring.<\/p>\n

TEMA approved the mission just after 7:15 p.m., and less than an hour later, a flight crew from the Tennessee National Guard\u2019s Task Force Smokey took off from McGhee-Tyson Air National Guard Base to rescue the hiker.<\/p>\n

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Peter Neveu and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andres Salas were the pilots for the mission. Sgt. 1st Class Cassandra Antes was the paramedic, and Staff Sgts. Daniel Bandy and Ernest Harlan were the crew chiefs.<\/p>\n

The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter arrived on the scene about 20 minutes later and quickly performed a hoist rescue, lifting the hiker into the aircraft.<\/p>\n

The crew transported the hiker to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, arriving shortly after 9 p.m. The entire operation, from the first notification of a potential mission to patient handoff at the hospital, took about two hours.<\/p>\n

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Sgt. 1st Class Cassandra Antes, a paramedic assigned to Task Force Smokey, prepares to be hoisted down to rescue an injured hiker May 20, 2024, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Cordeiro) VIEW ORIGINAL KNOXVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 A UH-60 Black Hawk medical flight crew from the Tennessee National Guard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183480,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183479\/revisions\/183480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}