Injured California couple has to be rescued from long-closed Hawaii trail, officials say

A husband and wife from California were rescued after they became injured while hiking on a trail in Hawaii that closed to the public after a deadly rockfall years ago, officials said.

The hikers, both in their 60s, were taken by helicopter Feb. 9 off Sacred Falls Trail on the island of Oahu, the Honolulu Fire Department wrote in a news release.

They’d been hiking for about 15 minutes that afternoon when they “sustained multiple injuries, and could not continue on their own,” rescuers said…

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