Crime & Safety
Woman Suffering Asthma Attack Rescued on Popular Trail
The Calabasas resident was brought to safety from the bottom of a 150-foot poison-oak laden canyon off Mulholland Highway near Malibu.
A Calabasas woman with a medical condition was brought to safety Thursday off Kanan Road north of Malibu.
The rescue began just after 6 p.m. about 150 feet down a poison oak laden canyon off Mulholland Highway east of Kanan Road, near a popular area called the "Rock Store."
The 18-year-old woman called 911 to report she was suffering from an asthma attack and that she was unable to hike out on her own, according to David Katz a spokesman with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Malibu Search and Rescue.
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Malibu Search and Rescue and the Los Angeles County Fire Department made their way down the canyon and brought the woman to safety using a harness, truck and winch system, Katz said.
According to Malibu Search and Rescue personnel, this was the second rescue that the team has responded to in this particular location known to locals as the “tree house”, located at the bottom of a canyon, according to Katz.
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