Forest ranger with broken leg rescued on Cracker Creek Road

Heard on: Baker County Sheriff and Fire

01:20

This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Station 20, respond to Cracker Creek Road.

00:02

This will be a request from the US Forest Service ambulance.

00:06

They have a ranger with a broken leg requesting to rendezvous at Cracker Creek Road.

00:19

Station 20.

00:24

602-21.

00:28

Six hundred and two, (number withheld).

00:35

Can you repeat?

00:37

Twenty-eight twenty-one.

00:38

You can show us.

00:39

We've been in route.

00:40

And can you confirm the rendezvous point? We were told something to do with a wayside earlier, but you said Cracker Creek.

00:48

Can you confirm?

00:53

You were to go through Sumpter.

00:55

Take a right and go north on Cracker Creek Road.

00:58

Continue on Cracker Creek Road until you were stopped by the forest service.

01:03

That is if they have not already made it to the intersection of Cracker Creek Road and Granite Hill Highway (OR 410).

01:10

Again, continue north on Cracker Creek Road until you were stopped by forest service employees who have the patient.

01:18

Okay, copy that.

8/25/2026 01:49 PM

Medical Emergency

Granite Hill Rd & Cracker Creek Rd, Sumpter, OR 97877

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews were sent to meet US Forest Service personnel on Cracker Creek Road near Granite Hill Highway for a ranger with a reported broken leg. Responders were directed through Sumpter and told to continue north on Cracker Creek Road until contacted by forest service staff with the patient.