PORTLAND, Ore. — A teenage girl suffered life-threatening injuries when she fell off Rocky Butte in Portland and tumbled about 40 feet Friday night, authorities said.
Rescuers responded to the parking lot of Portland Bible College at around 10:45 p.m. They had to use ropes and a pulley system to lift the girl to safety.
The girl, whose name has not been released, was rushed to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in serious condition. Authorities have not released any other specifics, except that she was in her early teens.
It was unknown what the teen was doing on Rocky Butte before she fell. But investigators said the area can be very deceiving, especially at night.
“The top of that area is really difficult to see where the edge begins. The trees grow up so it makes the lip of that cliff very difficult to see,” one of the rescuers explained to KGW.
It took rescuers about an hour to get the girl out of the dangerous terrain and into the ambulance.
Curt Isakson is a 35 year veteran of the fire service. Curt is currently a Battalion Chief for Escambia County Fire Rescue. Previously worked 9 years with the Pensacola Fire Department where he was assigned as the Company Officer on Rescue 31. Curt’s fire service experiences started at a young age as a Junior firefighter with the Midway Fire Protection District and rose through the ranks to Captain. He has worked in volunteer, career, and combination departments.
Curt has held all ranks up to Battalion Chief and been assigned to operations, training, inspections, and was Chief of Special Operations for 7 years. Curt owns and operates County Fire Tactics that covers a very diverse range of fire service topics, as well as Firefighter Rescues, a site that documents rescues made by firefighters around the country.
He has annual contracts with numerous departments to provide standardized monthly training for these departments that respond daily together under an automatic aid agreement. Curt teaches nationally to include; FDIC, Firehouse Expo, Firehouse World, Orlando Fire Conference, Atlanta Fire Conference, Bowling Green State University, and owns/operates the annual HROC, COBC, WOTF, CFT ODP on Pensacola Beach. He is a Florida Certified Fire Officer, Instructor, Inspector, Arson, and FLUSAR.
