CELL-PHONE CALL BRINGS MOUNTAIN RESCUE.Byline: Daily News GORMAN - A Kern County sheriff's helicopter crew rescued a surveyor stranded in a remote section of the Tehachapi Mountains Te·hach·a·pi Mountains A range of southern California extending from east to west between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Ranges north of Los Angeles. after he was able to call for help with his cell phone and provide GPS coordinates of where he was. The helicopter crew spotted Jim Patterson Jim Patterson was mayor of Fresno, California between 1993 and 2001. He succeeded Karen Humphrey with a 'tough on crime' campaign. Alan Autry succeeded Mayor Patterson. 2002 congressional race , 56, of Fresno and his vehicle stuck in the sand about five miles north of Highway 138, set down on a hilltop and helped Patterson up to the helicopter. ``Mr. Patterson called the Sheriff's Department and provided the GPS coordinates to dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. personnel. A Sheriff's Department helicopter along with personnel from the Sheriff's Department Frazier Park substation were dispatched to the area,'' Kern County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jess Baker said. Patterson was treated by Kern County Fire Department personnel for minor exhaustion, Baker said. Patterson had been driving Tuesday afternoon on Tejon Ranch Tejon Ranch Company is the largest private landowner in California. It was incorporated in 1936 to organise the ownership of a large tract of land originally comprised of four Mexican land grants, and began ranching in the 1840's. , surveying possible radio tower sites, sheriff's officials said. While he was trying to drive up a steep dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n , his vehicle lost traction and slid backward. Patterson kept the vehicle on the road, but its right front wheel was damaged and it got stuck in sand, deputies said. Patterson tried to hike up the hill but became exhausted, so he called for help on his cell phone and provided coordinates from his Global Positioning Satellite receiver. |
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