(MORGAN COUNTY, WV) – Maryland State Police rescued a victim who was injured by a falling tree Monday in West Virginia.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Monday,\u00a0 Maryland State Police Helicopter Trooper 5, based at Cumberland Airport was dispatched to Morgan County, West Virginia to hoist a victim who was injured by a falling tree. Due to the multiple sustained injuries, steep terrain and the extended extrication time by ground, Trooper 5 was requested to perform an aerial hoist rescue.<\/p>\n
The helicopter crew configured Trooper 5 for an aerial hoist operation and arrived overhead. The pilots maneuvered the AW-139 helicopter into a steady hover position 180 feet above the rescue crews due to terrain and obstacles. A Trooper\/Rescue Technician with medical equipment was lowered to the scene.<\/p>\n
The Trooper\/Rescue Technician assisted with patient stabilization. The Trooper\/Rescue Technician then secured the patient into the rescue litter with the assistance from Morgan County EMS. Once the patient was ready to be hoisted, Trooper 5 repositioned and maneuvered the helicopter into a steady hover position 130 feet above the victim. The Trooper\/Rescue Technician and the victim were hoisted up to the helicopter. Once the patient was secured inside the aircraft, Trooper 5 transitioned to its medevac role and transported the patient to UPMC Western Maryland Medical Center for further treatment.<\/p>\n
The Maryland State Police Aviation Command has served Maryland citizens since 1970, and operates a fleet of ten (10) helicopters from seven (7) bases throughout Maryland on a 24\/7\/365 basis.\u00a0 Missions include medevac, law enforcement, search & rescue, homeland security, and disaster assessment.\u00a0 The success of rescues performed by the Aviation Command depends a great deal on the cooperative effort of local fire, rescue, EMS and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n
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CONTACT: Lieutenant Nathan Wheelock, Commander Helicopter Field Operations 410-238-5804 or<\/p>\n
\u00a0Lance Wood Deputy, Director of Aviation, 410-238-5802<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(MORGAN COUNTY, WV) – Maryland State Police rescued a victim who was injured by a falling tree Monday in West Virginia. Shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Monday,\u00a0 Maryland State Police Helicopter Trooper 5, based at Cumberland Airport was dispatched to Morgan County, West Virginia to hoist a victim who was injured by a falling tree. Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-command","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21193,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}