BP agent rescued after being bitten by snake

By Gentry Braswell
WICK NEWS SERVICE
Published/Last Modified on Friday, May 16, 2008 3:07 PM MDT


SIERRA VISTA — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was bitten by a rattlesnake Thursday morning in Sheelite Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains.


A Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue Unit, an Arizona Department of Public Safety Ranger rescue helicopter, and 10 Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team communications and rescue personnel, responded to assist shortly after 10 a.m.

“The agent was transported to Sierra Vista Regional Health Center where he’s being treated and appears to be doing well,” said Dove Haber, spokeswoman for the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector.

The agent was in stable condition at the hospital as of 4:30 p.m., Haber said.

Rescue personnel carried the agent from the scene of the bite in Sheelite Canyon to the top of Garden Canyon, said Carol Capas, spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office.

The agent was then flown from atop the canyon by a DPS rescue crew and helicopter to Libby Army Airfield, from which he was taken by ground transportation to the Sierra Vista Regional Health Center.

County personnel cleared the call at 2:30 p.m., Capas said.

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Comments

    Nina Dieken wrote on May 18, 2008 5:54 PM:

    " WE hope the agent will recover soon. Thanks for all He has done to keep Us all safe and to all the people that was there to help him. May GOD BLESS each and everyone of you "

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