{"id":43029,"date":"2025-06-03T04:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43029"},"modified":"2025-06-03T04:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:28:30","slug":"school-nurse-helps-rescue-grandfather-who-fell-during-hike-at-utah-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43029","title":{"rendered":"School nurse helps rescue grandfather who fell during hike at Utah canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ashley Anderson was hiking in with her two kids and her dogs on Memorial Day when she heard yelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I look over and I didn&#8217;t even know what I was looking at at first,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It took me a second to register that it was a body.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A 64-year-old grandfather had fallen 20 feet down waterfall in Utah&#8217;s Adams Canyon. Anderson, a school nurse, sprang into action and used her training to help him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She told NBC affiliate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/51321559\/right-place-right-time-nurse-helps-man-who-fell-20-feet-in-adams-canyon\">KSL of Salt Lake City<\/a>&nbsp;that the man had an &#8220;obviously broken&#8221; leg and that his head was &#8220;sliced open and bleeding.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When Anderson arrived, she and other hikers who had pitched in to help moved him out of the cold water that was covering him. She then began first aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She said she told the group she needed something to stop bleeding on the man&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This guy rips off his shirt and throws it on me, so we put that on his head, and several of us picked him up and moved him to a dry area over on the rocks,&#8221; Anderson recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rescue teams responded, using a helicopter to drop rescuers into the canyon before they lifted the man back up to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Authorities said that the man was hiking with his children and grandchildren and that he fell after they got separated, KSL reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Anderson told the station the man&#8217;s family said he slipped and fell into the canyon. The station reported he shattered his kneecap and broke his femur but is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I kind of think that I did what anyone would do,&#8221; Anderson said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel like I did anything like more heroic or more incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/school-nurse-helps-rescue-grandfather-fell-hike-utah-canyon-rcna210537\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Anderson was hiking in with her two kids and her dogs on Memorial Day when she heard yelling. &#8220;I look over and I didn&#8217;t even know what I was looking at at first,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It took me a second to register that it was a body.&#8221; A 64-year-old grandfather had fallen 20 feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[4845,33514,6192,3397,22150,33515],"class_list":["post-43029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-fall","tag-grandfather","tag-hiking","tag-nurse","tag-rescued","tag-utah-canyon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43031,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions\/43031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}