Crews Rescue Hiker After Fall

Rescuers in suburban Philadelphia rescued a hiker after he fell down an embankment Sunday.

Montgomery County dispatchers said that the hiker was walking along a trail off of Grange Avenue in Evansburg State Park in Skippack, Pa. around 12:15 p.m. when he fell down the embankment.

It took rescuers until about 2 p.m. to free the unidentified man.

Medics took the man to Einstein Hospital with unknown injuries.

Dispatchers said the hiker remained conscious and alert throughout the ordeal.

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