One of as many as 50 teens on a group hike to Mount Lee, site of the famous Hollywood sign, got overheated this afternoon amid temperatures in the 90s, but did not need to be transported to a hospital.
Paramedics reached the group of 13- to 15-year-old boys and girls via a fire road and gave the teen a lift down the mountain in a fire department truck about 1:30 p.m. The rest of the group walked down the hill on their own power, authorities said.
City fire spokesman Brian Humphrey said all of the youths were checked out and firefighters used hoses to cool them down.
Today was the ninth day in a row that valley and inland temperatures have exceeded 100 degrees.
About 12:30 p.m. Monday, firefighters rescued a roughly 50-year-old woman suffering from heat exhaustion near Mount Lee.
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