San Diego fire department engine.
A San Diego Fire-Rescue Department vehicle. (File photo courtesy @SDFD via Twitter).

Emergency crews rescued a woman who suffered a medical crisis early Tuesday at a Mission Valley homeless encampment.

The emergency was reported shortly before 6 a.m. in a riverbed area off the 2100 block of Fenton Parkway, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

Paramedics took the woman to Sharp Memorial Hospital in Serra Mesa for evaluation.

She had suffered an apparently non-life-threatening ailment.