Medical rescue underway on steep Red Rock Canyon trail


Emergency responders are conducting a medical rescue on a difficult and narrow hiking trail in Red Rock Canyon. They are coordinating to safely reach and evacuate a patient using specialized equipment due to the challenging terrain.
Audio|Source: Colorado Springs Fire and EMS
06:28
Transcript:
Battalion 2 from command. Go for Battalion 2. In the event we need assistance from Truck 4, would we be able to shuttle those personnel up to the site with your vehicle? Potentially. I'm arriving on site here in just a moment and I'll make contact with them. the patient of what your distance is up the trail and what their condition is. Copy that. We're still en route to him, but we should be there in the next couple minutes. Appreciate you. Forgive me. Who am I speaking to? This is engine I let's get you. Copy that, (name withheld), thank you. Just couldn't make the voice. Appreciate that. This should have Italian two arrived. All companies from command quick status report. We're at the intersection of Red Rock Canyon Trail and Roundup Trail. We're now switched to a single track. We're going to be heading the rest of the way on foot. Should be a patient in a couple minutes. Engine through J-C copy. Thirteen from command confirming you're headed up with a wheel and litter. That's permittive. Command Battalion 2. Command. (name withheld), I'm going to go ahead and assume command from you. I'm going to make you rescue group supervisor with Engine 13 working for you to understand. Affirm, Engine 9 will now be a rescue group. And I'm going to do another thing. Engine 13 officer from command, I'd like you to assume safety. You understand? Just 13 officer safety, copy. And rescue group from command, I'm going to use 73 along with just the truck four officer. They're going to come up Mesa Trail in his ride. I think based on my three words, we can get really, really close and might even be able to bring the patient out. But they're going to start moving up that way, so you can communicate with them as they move up Mesa Trail and start moving up to the My Three Words location. Receive? Yeah, that's great. I was just looking at that. Mesa Trail as a possible. Evac route, the trail that we're on right now in Roundup is a pretty narrow switchbacks that will be great for EGRAS. Command, receive. Also, can you tell me where the AMR personnel and their apparatus is located? The AMR vehicle is at the end of the Red Rock Trail, where Red Rock can roundup tie in together. The AMR personnel are with us making access to the patient. Okay. Is that a – where they're parked – I obviously don't have that on APO, but is that a location that – potentially we can get the patient down to or out to. Yeah, if necessary. I think we may need Stokes Basket in a wheel and kind of the rolling belay to get the person down these switchbacks. But we would be able to get the patient to that location if the Mesa Trail doesn't end up working out. All right, receive. Why don't we go ahead and start having the AMR personnel go back to their ambulance since they won't be part of the trail EVE Act if that's what we do, and they can start setting their ambulance up to receive the patient. Do you agree with that? Okay, firm, yeah, we'll send them back to the ambulance so you can be ready to redeploy a little quicker if we need them over, back over to the other side. Excellent, I think that's a good plan. Could you also give me that AMR unit number, please? AMR 91. AMR 91, receive, thank you. Dispatch copies all. Rescue group supervisor from dispatch. Go ahead. next to or near Brush 13? I believe so. I'm remote from that location currently, but that should be the parking area for both of those vehicles. Copy. Break. Command from dispatch. Go for command. I know we can't see the AMR rig on AVL, but if it's right next to Brush 13, we can see where it is for now until they move, obviously. One suggestion, thank you. Command from Rush U Group, suit safety. Go for command. We need one piece of equipment. We need the attachment for the stokes to the wheel. It's located in the back compartment of engine 13. SUV vehicle could bring it up to our location where it's the end of the two track beginning of the single track
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Red Rock Canyon Trail, Colorado Springs, CO 80904
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