YACHATS – A 63-year-old California woman was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to a hospital in Corvallis late Saturday night after teams from at least five relief agencies rescued her from a steep ravine off a logging road south of Yachats.

News releases from the Lincoln and Lane sheriff’s offices said the woman was alone in a side-by-side ATV when she left Forest Service Road 58 east of Cummins Peak Road and fell 200 to 300 feet into a ravine below.

After she was unable to meet with her husband, he and a local friend searched for her before calling authorities Saturday afternoon, the Lane County Sheriff’s Office said in a new news release Tuesday. None of the agencies involved would release her name or hometown.

Tim O’Neill, a seasonal firefighter with the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District who lived at the district’s station on Yachats River Road, saw the tracks of their ATV veer off the road and into the ravine and spotted them below.

Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies, search and rescue teams from Lincoln and Lane counties, local fire departments and the Lincoln County Technical Rescue Team spent six hours on the scene, according to the Yachats Fire District and a Lincoln County Sheriff’s press release. Bruce Maguire, lead deputy with Lincoln County Search and Rescue, said the woman was wearing a helmet, “which likely saved her life.”

McGuire used a drone to gather information on the woman’s location and condition. Due to the steep terrain, Maguire called the county’s technical rescue team, and with help from Lane County, rescuers were able to reach the woman. Maguire said the woman injured her right leg, preventing her from climbing the steep slope.