Subject: Helicopter 408 assists with off road rescue

CALIFORNIA CITY - CA. Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at approximately 4:20 P.M.,
the Kern County Fire Department received a call from the California City
Police Department requesting assistance to rescue the victim of an off
highway vehicle accident, the exact location was unknown at the time of
call.

Helicopter 408 was dispatched and was directed to a sand wash southwest of
Twenty Mule Team Road, approximately 4 miles from California City. The crew
of helicopter 408 was able to land close to the incident, and assisted
California City Fire Department with patient stabilization. Both fire and
police had now arrived on scene.

Once on scene helicopter crew members were able to relay the correct
co-ordinates to a medi-vac helicopter that landed and then transported the
victim to Kern Medical Center.