CLEVELAND — White County Public Safety officials responded to three separate calls on Yonah Mountain over the weekend.
Those calls included a lost hiker, an injured hiker who had fallen, and a stranded dog.
The first call was Saturday evening where a hiker was reported lost on the mountain, according to White County Public Safety spokeswoman Ana Newberry.
Firefighters responded and located the hiker and assisted him out to the parking area on Chambers Road.
According to Newberry, the hiker was evaluated by White County Emergency Medical Services personnel but was not transported to the hospital.
That search and rescue operation lasted approximately three hours.
On Sunday morning, Newberry said E-9-1-1 advised fire officials that several hikers on Yonah Mountain saw a dog that was stranded out on a ledge.
Four personnel from White County Fire Services, along with Jessica Tanner of White County Animal Control, responded, according to Newberry. A firefighter was lowered down a cliff where he secured the dog and both then were hoisted back up.
The dog, which was not injured, was placed in the custody of animal control, Newberry said.
Sunday evening, firefighters from White County, with mutual aid from Lee Arrendale State Prison firefighters, and White County EMS responded to a report of a high-level fall on Yonah Mountain.
Newberry said upon arrival personnel found a male victim who had fallen at the rock steps suffering an injury to his leg.
Responders hiked in about one-quarter mile and placed the patient in a stokes basket and moved him out to the waiting ambulance, Newberry said.
Firefighters then assisted in packaging and loading the patient for transport, Newberry said.
