On June 7th, emergency dispatchers received a call about a woman yelling for help on the Granite Dells Flume Trail near Watson Lake outside of Prescott, Arizona. They’d received a distress call from the woman herself a few minutes earlier, but the call was cut off abruptly. Fortunately, they could use cell tower data to determine the woman’s location. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office then sent a deputy familiar with the area, Sergeant Anthony Horn, who hiked out to the woman’s place.
When Horn located the victim, a 37-year-old Phoenix woman, "below a large boulder and partially in the creek," he found that she’d taken a severe fall while hiking and had suffered a broken leg and was bleeding significantly. The quick-thinking deputy applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and even got in the water and applied pressure to her leg in an attempt to alleviate some of her pain.
Horn then climbed up to higher ground so he could get cellphone reception and called in an emergency crew to evacuate the woman. The victim was airlifted to a nearby hospital for treatment and the sheriff’s office later took to social media to praise Sergeant Horn, saying that he saved the woman from potentially life-threatening injuries and that without his actions, the rescue mission “could have been much worse.”
Source: ABC 15