On a bright Saturday fall afternoon, WCSAR received a call for a female hiker who was injured after falling on an unofficial trail off Princess Arch trail. Knowing that blown-down trees might require additional help to transport the patient, we placed a mutual-aid request to our friends from Powell County Search & Rescue.
A hasty team — including a team member paramedic and Wilderness First Responder— rushed to the location coordinates provided by dispatch, along with a PCSAR paramedic. They successfully treated the hiker until additional team members arrived, packaged her in a Stokes basket and began to carry her out. The exit required lifting the patient over multiple downed trees, but at 6:30 p.m. rescuers got her to the waiting ambulance, and she was transported to a nearby hospital with a possible broken leg.
We thank the team members who came out, our friends from PCSAR and the Menifee County Ambulance Service for a very successful coordinated effort.
