Incident
Rescue
Date
4.52pm - 31 August 2021
Last updated
9.15am - 01 September 2021
Status
Closed
Incident type
From height
Location
Lydford
Attending station
Okehampton
Tavistock
Urban Search and Rescue (USAR)
Crews from Tavistock, our National Resilience Urban Search and Rescue Team based at Clyst St George, and Okehampton, attended Lydford Gorge where a lady had had a bad fall and injured herself. Crews worked together to get to the casualty and then extricated her from the gorge using specialist rescue equipment and stretchers. Care of the casualty was then handed over to Ambulance crews and the lady was airlifted to hospital.