Emergency crews spent about two hours rescuing a cyclist who plunged nearly 20 metres from the escarpment near the Ancaster Mill restaurant.
The 20-year-old woman went over the edge Wednesday morning near Canterbury Falls. It’s not known why she plunged down the embankment, but there are no curbs or barriers in the stretch of Old Dundas Road where she was biking, and the embankment is just a step or two from the road in some spots.
Dozens of firefighters performed a high-angle rope rescue beginning shortly after noon. Emergency crews including two ambulances and seven fire trucks were involved.
The woman was airlifted by Ornge air ambulance to hospital about 2 p.m. It landed to pick her up in the parking lot of the nearby Mount Mary Christian Retreat Centre on Wilson Street.
EMS manager Carmen D’Angelo said the woman had serious injuries and was being treated for trauma at Hamilton General Hospital.
Old Dundas Road was closed to traffic at the restaurant during the rescue.
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.
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