NORTHRIDGE — Firefighters rescued two children who became stranded in a rugged area of the Santa Susana foothills near Northridge Monday afternoon. Both were fine.
Twelve-year-old Savanna Tossi was carrying a mobile phone and called authorities around 2:53 Monday afternoon. She told them her friend, 8-year-old girl Angela Calame, had fallen and become stranded in a dry creek bed near Aliso Canyon, according to Los Angeles city fire department spokesman Brian Humphrey.
“We were hiking and then we were trying figure out the way to get home,” Tossi told KTLA’s Cher Calvin. ” … and I slipped,”
The two didn’t know exactly where they were but were eventually spotted by firefighters and helicopter crews. The girls and a dog were taken to safety during three airlifts, Humphrey said.
“It would have been much, much worse had it been a little later in the day when it was dark,” Jeff Marcus of the Los Angeles Fire Department told KTLA. “We were very, very fortunate to find them via the helicopters.”
Humphrey says more than two dozen fire crews on the ground and in the air searched for the children for just over an hour before they were spotted by a helicopter crew shortly before 4 p.m.
“The good news is that they found her,” Angela’s mother, Kitty Calame, told KTLA. She thanked the Los Angeles Police Department and rescue crews. “I was just so worried. Thank God for the LAPD and the fire department.”
Story and media by ktla.com
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