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A Laguna Beach man who fell while hiking in Los Padres National Forest near Ojai was rescued Sunday by helicopter.
Richard Maxwell, 81, and his wife, Carol, were hiking Sunday morning on the Pratt Trail when he became lightheaded and fell, sheriff's deputies said. A group of Boy Scouts hiking with the couple tended to him while two adults in the party called for help on a cell phone.
Emergency crews from the county Fire Department and an aviation unit from the Sheriff's Department arrived and rescued Maxwell.
He was taken to Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, where he was listed in stable condition Sunday.
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