Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde ValleySedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    • Home
    • Sedona
      • Arts and Entertainment
      • Bear Howard Chronicles
      • Business Profiles
      • City of Sedona
      • Elections
      • Goodies & Freebies
      • Mind & Body
      • Sedona News
    • Opinion
    • Real Estate
    • About
    • The Sedonan
    • Advertise
    • Sedona’s Best
    Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde ValleySedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    Home»Sedona News»Camping trip turns into off-duty rescue mission for YC fire academy instructors
    Sedona News

    Camping trip turns into off-duty rescue mission for YC fire academy instructors

    September 20, 2018No Comments
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Email Reddit WhatsApp
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Reddit WhatsApp

    logo_yavapaicollegePrescott AZ (September 20, 2018) – A pair of Yavapai College Fire Science alumni are being hailed as heroes for providing aid to a man who was severely beaten in an adjacent Verde River campsite earlier this month.

    Ethan Hutchison and Mikayla Baker decided on a whim to join a group of friends at Bear Siting on the Verde River, arriving around 9 p.m. Sept. 9 after wrapping up their workday at the Central Arizona Regional Training Academy.

    “We were looking forward to some relaxing time,” said Mikayla, who works alongside her boyfriend, Ethan, as a fire academy technician for the Yavapai College Fire Science Program. “We were sitting on the tailgate eating dinner when we heard what sounded like somebody chopping wood,” she said. “We heard four chopping sounds and then we heard a woman crying and whimpering.”

    20180920_ycedu

    Mikayla, a former wildland firefighter, recalled turning to Ethan and together instinctually deciding to run to where the sounds were coming from. “It sounded to us like someone was getting beat up,” she said.

    When they arrived at the adjacent campsite, they found a man standing over a woman curled up in a ball on the ground. “We assumed it was a domestic incident,” Ethan said. Surveying the scene, they discovered another man on the ground suffering from head wounds. While two of their friends kept watch on the apparently unharmed woman as the suspect fled the scene, Ethan tended to the injured man. Also a full-time firefighter and EMT with the Central Yavapai Fire District, Ethan rendered first aid  and made the decision to get the victim to a hospital as soon as possible. “He definitely needed more medical attention than I could give him,” he said, noting that he had only a basic first-aid kit at his disposal.

    With Mikayla driving and Ethan doing what he could to keep the victim alive in the truck bed, the pair sped along a rough Drake Road to Highway 89, where they rendezvoused with an ambulance and a sheriff’s deputy.

    Sedona Gift Shop

    Due to concern about the severity of his wounds, the victim was airlifted to Flagstaff Regional Medical Center.

    The responding sheriff’s deputy, Raul Martinez, later emailed Yavapai College Fire Science Director Ken Krebbs writing, “the victim is expected to make a full recovery thanks to the actions of those involved in the incident.” The deputy added, “I just wanted you to know that we appreciated their help.”

    Krebbs expressed pride in Ethan and Mikayla, his former fire science students and current employees. He said he appreciated the fact the sheriff’s deputy made him aware of the pair’s life-saving actions.  “To make sure the employer knows what a good job somebody does, that’s pretty infrequent,” Krebbs said.

    Mikayla and Ethan, who met in the YC Fire Science Program and graduated together three years ago, are shrugging off the “hero” moniker along with assertions that their actions saved the injured man’s life. They acknowledged doing right by someone who needed help, however.

    “I hope that anyone with overall human decency would help somebody who needed it,” Ethan said.

    Despite missing out on some relaxation on their last camping trip, the couple are planning another outdoor getaway soon. They plan to be better prepared, however. “The next time we go out, we have to have a better first-aid kit,” Mikayla said.

    Healing Paws

    This is an advertisement

    Comments are closed.

    Babies No More

    Babies No More

    By Sean Dedalus

    I was talking to the Sedona.biz publisher/editor the other day, Tommy Acosta, and learned that our common friend Fernando Rivera of North Carolina passed away. It was reported that life and time caught him and then overcame him, and his heart quietly and suddenly failed.

    Read more→

    The Sedonan
    Need More Customers?
    Bear Howard Chronicles
    Humankind
    Tlaquepaque
    Verde Valley Wine Trail
    Recent Comments
    • Robert hoenig on Lift Your Heads, Democrats—The Soul of the Nation & Sedona Still Beats With You
    • JB on Lift Your Heads, Democrats—The Soul of the Nation & Sedona Still Beats With You
    • JB on Don’t Prejudge
    • Brigitte Sims on Babies No More
    • Eira on Babies No More
    • Jeremiah Perez on Babies No More
    • Michael Schroeder on Don’t Prejudge
    • JB on Rotary Club of Sedona Village Presents $15,000 Check at V A Hospital Veterans Picnic
    • JB on Don’t Prejudge
    • JB on Don’t Prejudge
    • JB on Don’t Prejudge
    • JB on Don’t Prejudge
    • JB on Don’t Prejudge
    • D w on Don’t Prejudge
    • JB on Don’t Prejudge
    Archives
    Babies No More

    Babies No More

    By Sean Dedalus

    I was talking to the Sedona.biz publisher/editor the other day, Tommy Acosta, and learned that our common friend Fernando Rivera of North Carolina passed away. It was reported that life and time caught him and then overcame him, and his heart quietly and suddenly failed.

    Read more→

    The Sedonan
    The Sedonan
    Babies No More

    Babies No More

    By Sean Dedalus

    I was talking to the Sedona.biz publisher/editor the other day, Tommy Acosta, and learned that our common friend Fernando Rivera of North Carolina passed away. It was reported that life and time caught him and then overcame him, and his heart quietly and suddenly failed.

    Read more→

    Babies No More

    Babies No More

    By Sean Dedalus

    I was talking to the Sedona.biz publisher/editor the other day, Tommy Acosta, and learned that our common friend Fernando Rivera of North Carolina passed away. It was reported that life and time caught him and then overcame him, and his heart quietly and suddenly failed.

    Read more→

    Babies No More

    Babies No More

    By Sean Dedalus

    I was talking to the Sedona.biz publisher/editor the other day, Tommy Acosta, and learned that our common friend Fernando Rivera of North Carolina passed away. It was reported that life and time caught him and then overcame him, and his heart quietly and suddenly failed.

    Read more→

    Babies No More

    Babies No More

    By Sean Dedalus

    I was talking to the Sedona.biz publisher/editor the other day, Tommy Acosta, and learned that our common friend Fernando Rivera of North Carolina passed away. It was reported that life and time caught him and then overcame him, and his heart quietly and suddenly failed.

    Read more→

    Babies No More

    Babies No More

    By Sean Dedalus

    I was talking to the Sedona.biz publisher/editor the other day, Tommy Acosta, and learned that our common friend Fernando Rivera of North Carolina passed away. It was reported that life and time caught him and then overcame him, and his heart quietly and suddenly failed.

    Read more→

    © 2025 All rights reserved. Sedona.biz.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.