Man falls while hiking and suffers possible spinal injury, Barree Township PA
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Medical EmergencyEmergency medical crews responded to a man who fell while hiking near a cabin close to Pine Swamp Road, Jackson Township. The man suffered possible spinal injuries and numbness in his left leg but had some movement in his right leg. Rescuers coordinated accessing the location on a mountain trail to provide aid.
Audio|Heard on: Huntingdon County Fire and EMS
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07:6
Transcript:
00:00
181 is that address (number withheld) mine falper that's the cabin that we're showing on the map will intersect with a mid-state trail before you would get to the patient.
00:18
Correct. Captain 19 to Captain 191.
00:22
I'm unseen with the caller on Pine Swamp Road.
00:26
Stop at that cabin.
00:27
He said we're going to be going back into the woods quite a ways.
00:30
He said probably near the top of the mountain.
00:32
So probably going to try and access it from down there.
00:35
We're going to cross a creek to get across or to get up into the mountain.
00:46
Is it accessible with the gator or we're going to have to build much work?
00:55
He said it's quite a way up in here.
00:57
He's not sure if it's accessible or not from where I'm at.
01:01
So stopping that cabin check, you'll see me on the road.
01:04
I think we're going to have to access it from up there.
01:07
All right, ten, four.
01:09
We're right here on location.
01:11
County, you can go ahead and place Captain 191, that's the captain.
01:15
Question 19 is right behind me.
01:18
Thank you.
01:22
County Shill on location.
01:26
178.
01:33
Captain 191, they just had a phone call from someone in the woods.
01:37
The ATV can get right to that patient.
01:41
So we're going to need to get EMP on to that feeder before we go up in.
01:46
10-4[1]. Okay.
01:53
Rush 19 from Captain 18.
01:57
Go ahead.
02:00
Lieutenant, are you unloading out there?
02:05
Negative. We started it back.
02:08
104. Once you come up that pine swamp there, the first lean to your left,
02:15
there'll be a yellow gate.
02:16
You cannot get the trailer back in here.
02:18
I want you unload on the main road.
02:23
Received, I have the map pulled up for that second incident and county started it and showed about 0.6 miles out.
02:32
Okay, 10-4[1].
02:34
Like I said, do not attempt to bring the rushing trailer back in to the scout.
02:42
It happened to the street.
03:01
Are you going to make a fan Thursday Christmas guy in the mess manner?
03:09
Yes, as soon as I can get the ambulance turned around in my south, we'll be back.
03:13
Make sure you have an EMT go up in there.
03:17
I did talk to the gentleman.
03:19
He's from Mifflin County.
03:21
He said that whoever called him on the foot so it's accessible like going up this trail off the cabin.
03:33
Hey Gene, I was talking to the landowners, your transmission.
03:40
I think you have medic 24 Monroe.
03:47
Okay, very good.
03:48
I did just talk with him via phone.
03:59
Captain 19, how far are you from this camp?
04:05
I'm back to camp location now.
04:08
Once you unload the Gator can back back back to the road, I want to get with Captain 19 and get a game plan on.
04:18
inspection in the 19.
04:19
How far are you awake from this road? Should we wait to get care from you?
04:27
Tom, you have BLF bag in that brush truck, take that.
04:31
Once you get an EMT up there too, come back down, we'll get more equipment once we need it, once we know what we need.
04:39
Appreciate.
04:40
I have the EMS Lieutenant with me.
04:46
Okay, very well.
04:48
Christine, reports from the patient,
04:52
the hunters that were with him,
04:54
fell onto rocks.
04:57
He wasn't able to move his legs,
04:59
but now he is able to move his right.
05:02
He still doesn't quite feel his left leg.
05:04
He said it's tingly.
05:06
So you could stop there and assess see if we're going to need anything else as far as aeromedical I was in contact with.
05:14
Medi 24 as well.
05:21
Captain 19 from Captain 191.
05:26
Go ahead.
05:28
I think we ought to stage the ambulance up on the hard road here.
05:31
It's very icy down here.
05:33
We get all these units down in here.
05:34
It's going to be very treacherous.
05:38
Okay, they are backing up to your location right now.
05:41
They should be almost there.
05:44
Just coordinate with them.
05:51
Just stop prior to the driveway to the camp.
05:55
You're about 50-thirds away, I can see it.
05:58
1,100 colleagues.
06:06
19, it's a big hole rate there, slow down.
06:16
Chapter 19 from 19, boy.
06:25
All right, the gaiters down here at the cabin.
06:28
Do you want to send one of those hunters to give us a precise location,
06:32
precise location,
06:33
or should we just proceed on back to the woods?
06:37
Just follow the trail up, you'll see them.
06:39
They said there may be 20 yards off the trail.
06:41
Ah, so just follow the mids trail up through.
06:44
They've already taken one foot and went back up in.
06:48
10-4[1]. I'm going to have a second command here at the cabin.
06:52
I'll go ahead and send the crew up there.
06:59
Captain, I'm going to back down to your location at this, and we'll just have one command of.
07:05
Fair and four.
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Location mentioned:
Pine Swamp Rd, Jackson Township, PA
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