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Four hikers, dog rescued from cliffside near California’s tallest bridge
AUBURN — Four hikers and a dog are safe after they were rescued from the side of a cliff in Auburn near California’s tallest bridge.
It happened Monday night on the west side of the revenue on the North Fork of the American River under the Foresthill Bridge.
Cal Fire said they responded around 8:30 p.m. Monday after the hikers called for help when they could not find their way back to their car. The hikers were from out of town and were hiking on a remote trail, losing their way when the sun went down.
California State Parks, Cal Fire and Placer County Technical Rescue crews responded to the call. The hikers were safely rescued and were not injured.
Nolan Hale, battalion chief for Cal Fire’s Auburn headquarters, said the rescue could not have happened in a better location.
“They were essentially 50 feet below our training site. Over the past four to five months, we’ve held seven large trainings there for low-angle rope rescues. So the ground and the gear and the systems we used are all very familiar,” Hale said.
With the summer recreation season just months away, Cal Fire said to always have a plan when hiking, have a plan and research the area, have food and water, have a way to communicate with authorities and let people know where you are hiking and what time you’ll return.
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An Israeli airstrike hit a mosque in central Gaza and Palestinian officials said at least 19 people were killed early Sunday. Israeli planes also lit up the skyline across the southern suburbs of Beirut, striking what the military said were Hezbollah targets.
The strike in Gaza hit a mosque where displaced people were sheltering near the main hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah. Another four people were killed in a strike on a school sheltering displaced people near the town.
The Israeli military said both strikes targeted militants, without providing evidence.
An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital morgue. Hospital records showed that the dead from the strike on the mosque were all men, while another man was wounded.
In Beirut, the strikes reportedly targeted a building near a road leading to Lebanon’s only international airport and another formerly used by the Hezbollah-run broadcaster Al-Manar.
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Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. Israel declared war on the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in response. As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the one-year mark, nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in the latest conflict, most of them since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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