Hamilton firefighters used ropes and a basket to rescue an injured woman who plunged about nine metres at Felker’s Falls in Stoney Creek.
When the crews arrived Thursday, “they found they weren’t able to go down and carry the person out. They needed rope rescue,” said fire spokesperson Claudio Mostacci.
The department responded to the call just after 1:30 p.m. and had pulled the woman up by 3 p.m.
Firefighters set up the rope rescue from the edge of the frozen falls, lowered a basket and secured the woman, Mostacci said.
Mostacci said she was walking along a trail when she fell about nine metres, winding up about 30 metres from the top of the falls.
He said the woman was taken to hospital but he couldn’t comment on the extent of her injuries.
Firefighters close to the falls’ edge had to be tethered to prevent them from slipping and falling over.
“It’s an intricate procedure on dry land during the summer when people go over, and in the winter it just adds to it because of the slipperiness.”
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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