Search-and-rescue worker shocked

A search-and-rescue volunteer was flown to the University of California, Davis, Medical Center on Monday night after receiving an electric shock near the High Meadow trailhead, authorities said.

Jeanne Horton, 53, of South Lake Tahoe was in stable condition Tuesday morning at the hospital, authorities said.

The search and rescue was part of a command post established around 7:40 p.m. Monday to find hikers who were reported missing.

Search-and-rescue volunteers set up a portable radio-repeater antenna for communications when it hit a power line, authorities said. An electrical charge from the line ran down the antenna and through a search-and-rescue vehicle, which Horton touched, an El Dorado County sheriff's spokesman said.

Horton collapsed and immediately was attended to by fellow volunteers, who administered CPR until responding medics arrived on scene, the spokesman said.

Horton was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, then transported to UC Davis. The search continued through the night, and the hikers were located.