text: SILVERADO CANYON (CBSLA.com) — A 51-year-old Orange County woman, who needed to be rescued while trying to rescue her kitten Monday morning, said she has learned a lesson. 
   
   Sara Beebe tried to climb up a 50-foot slope behind her Silverado Canyon home in the 14900 block of Kitterman Drive to get her adopted black cat down at about 8 a.m. 
   
   When she tried to come down, she slid, injured her ankle and scraped her arms and legs. She said she was stuck in the middle of the cliff; she could not climb up or come down. 
   
   Beebe said first she screamed for her young daughter and then yelled for her neighbors to call 911. 
   
   A firefighter rappelled down from a helicopter and pulled Beebe onto the aircraft to safety. 
   
   “I did ask her how she got to where she was. She had told me that she had gone up to rescue a cat,” said Jeff Shelton of the Orange County Fire Authority. 
   
   Beebe said she will do things differently next time. “I am going have to start letting the cat be a little more independent when I get it out and just put my prayer into it that it get back home,” she said. 
   
   “The kitty made its way back down by itself,” Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said. “That’s why we say if a cat gets stuck in a tree or a roof, just put some food down on the ground and when the cat is hungry, it will come back down.” 
   
   (©2015 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.) ||||| A 51-year-old woman was rescued by helicopter after she got stuck on a Silverado Canyon cliff trying to find her kitten which had run off Monday morning.. 
   
   Firefighters responded to the 14900 block of Kitterman Drive around 8 a.m. after a neighbor heard her yell for help and called 911, said Capt. Steve Concialdi of the Orange County Fire Authority. 
   
   The homeowner, who has not been identified, climbed up after the kitten -- also unnamed -- ran up a hill behind the woman’s house. 
   
   “Because it’s so dry and steep, she started trying to climb down and she slipped and continued sliding down about 50 feet,” Concialdi said. 
   
   She twisted her ankle and was scraped during her fall and couldn’t climb up or down. 
   
   An urban search and rescue firefighter helped the woman on the hill while the Orange County Fire Authority helicopter lowered a safety harness. 
   
   Both the firefighter and the woman were hoisted up together into the helicopter. 
   
   The woman was flown to paramedics waiting on the ground and evaluated for her injuries. She declined hospitalization and authorities drove her home. 
   
   During the rescue, the kitten made its way safely down the hill on its own. 
   
   “This is typical,” Concialdi said. “Even if a cat goes in a tree or on a roof, they come down. Put some food out for the cat and it will come down.” 
   
   Contact the writer: afausto@ocregister.com
target: – A 51-year-old California woman who climbed up a steep slope behind her house to rescue one of her cats ended up needing to be airlifted off the cliff, CBS Los Angeles reports. The cat, meanwhile, made it down safely on its own. While attempting to retrieve the cat yesterday, Sara Beebe slid about 50 feet and twisted her ankle, according to the Orange County Register. Too hurt to climb the rest of the way down, Beebe started yelling for help, and eventually a neighbor called 911. Firefighters used a helicopter to airlift Beebe to safety, and she appeared to have learned her lesson. "I am going to have to start letting the cat be a little more independent," Beebe tells CBS.