By Brett Fisher and Jeff Munson

  • The staging area for the rescue off of Goni Canyon in north Carson City. Photo by Brett Fisher
    The staging area for the rescue off of Goni Canyon in north Carson City. Photo by Brett Fisher
  • A helicopter surveys the area where the victim's vehicle was discovered. Photo by Brett Fisher
    A helicopter surveys the area where the victim’s vehicle was discovered. Photo by Brett Fisher
  • A rescue team makes its way into the canyon.
    A rescue team makes its way into the canyon.

UPDATE 3:20PM: The 40-year-old victim in a vehicle rollover was taken out of Goni Canyon by helicopter and transported by ground ambulance to Renown Medical Center in Reno following a rescue Wednesday afternoon. The man’s pickup was discovered by a friend who went looking for him after he had not returned home overnight. The man had been looking for a lost dog, friends and family said. The pickup was found around 400 feet down into a canyon and required a technical rescue involving 10 Carson City Fire Department firefighters.
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UPDATE 1:58PM: The pickup was found in the canyon about 400 feet down from the road, said Carson City Undersheriff Steve Albertsen. Care Flight has been called in to transport the man out of the canyon after he arrives in a safe area where the helicopter can land, dispatch said. An NAS helicopter out of Fallon was canceled.
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UPDATE: Carson City deputies and rescue crews have made contact with an injured 40-year-old man whose vehicle was discovered around 400 feet down an embankment this afternoon in Goni Canyon. The man sustained injuries to his hands and back, some lacerations and is not trapped inside the vehicle.
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Carson City sheriff’s deputies, the fire department and rescue personnel were called this afternoon to a vehicle that has been found overturned in the Goni Canyon area.

The vehicle was discovered before 1 p.m. by a friend who had become concerned that his friend had gone four-wheel driving and that he had not heard from him for more than 16 hours.

The friend said he tried the man’s cell phone and went to his home and he wasn’t there. He called the sheriff’s office after he went looking for his friend and discovered the vehicle down an embankment. Arriving deputies said the vehicle has been spotted and the occupant has injuries, according to dispatch.

Arriving rescue crews also said the victim may need to be removed from the area via helicopter because the vehicle is located in a remote area where an ambulance cannot get into.

Check back for updates on this developing story…