A hiker who was injured Monday while trekking over a mountain with others on the east end of Riverside was rescued by firefighters and taken to a hospital.
The “hiker down” call was received shortly before 4 a.m. atop Sugarloaf Mountain, within the Box Springs Mountain Reserve bordering Riverside and Moreno Valley, according to the Riverside Fire Department.
Battalion Chief Bruce Vanderhorst said that a regular engine crew and the department’s Technical Rescue Team, numbering about a dozen personnel, were sent to the location, making their way to the crest of the roughly 2,000-foot mountain…