On Sunday July 3, 2022, The Curry County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received information Sunday, July 3rd, from Brookings Police Dispatch, regarding a person at Natural Bridges, about fifteen miles north of Brookings, who had fallen while hiking the trail and possibly had a broken ankle.
The information relayed from dispatchers, coordinating response resources, was that the victim, nineteen-year-old Cayley Mead from Bainbridge Island, Washington, was about .2 tenths of a mile in on a steep trail. Brookings Dispatch paged out Cal Ore Life Flight and Cape Ferrelo Fire Department as the Sheriff’s Dispatch sent Patrol Deputies and Search and Rescue members.
Deputies, Search and Rescue and other First Responders arrived and attended to Mead, who was in severe pain from a broken ankle. Search and Rescue, Cape Ferrelo Fire and Cal Ore Life Flight crew were able to secure Mead in a stokes and carried her back out to the awaiting ambulance.
