An 8-year-old boy was critically injured today after falling roughly 20 feet down a shaft into a bunker-like room near the top of the popular Koko Crater Trail in Hawaii Kai.
The Honolulu Fire Department received a 911 call about the incident at 5 :24 p.m. and dispatched five units staffed with 13 personnel. The first unit arrived on the scene at 5 :39 p.m., with rescuers heading up the steep trail on foot while other units secured a landing zone nearby for HFD’s Air 1 helicopter.
The boy, who reportedly is a local resident, was hiking with his parents when he fell. Rescuers reached him at 5 :57 p.m. and provided treatment to prepare him for extraction, HFD said. Air 1 safely airlifted the child to the landing zone, where his care was transferred to a Honolulu Emergency Medical Services crew at 6 :10 p.m.
EMS said he was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
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