(SYKESVILLE, MD) \u2013 The Maryland State Police Aviation Command rescued a hiker, who became injured after slipping and falling from the top of a cliff onto a train tunnel in Carroll County on Friday. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Shortly after 3 p.m. on November 1, Carroll County EMS and Fire Department personnel responded to the area of Gaither Road and Railroad Avenue in Sykesville, Maryland for a report of an injured person. Dispatch information indicated that a hiker was walking in a wooded area when they slipped and fell an estimated 20 feet down an embankment and onto the top of a train tunnel. Due to the location of the injured person, terrain, and\u00a0prolonged time to extricate the patient, the Maryland State Police Aviation Command was requested to perform a medevac.<\/p>\n
Trooper 1, a crew based out of Martin State Airport in Middle River, responded to the scene. Pilots maneuvered the AgustaWestland (AW-139) helicopter into a 120-foot hover while State Trooper\/Flight Paramedics were deployed to perform a trauma assessment and prepare the patient for the hoist. The patient was then placed into a Patient Extrication Platform (PEP) Bag and safely hoisted into the helicopter. Once the patient was brought into the aircraft, the flight crew transitioned into a medevac role, where the hiker was then flown to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland for treatment of their injuries.<\/p>\n
The Maryland State Police Aviation Command has served the citizens of Maryland since March 1970 and operates a fleet of ten AW-139 helicopters from seven helicopter bases throughout Maryland on a 24\/7\/365 basis. Missions include medevac, law enforcement, search and rescue, homeland security, and disaster assessment. The Aviation Command staffs each helicopter with two pilots and two state trooper\/medical clinicians. The success of aerial rescues performed by the Aviation Command depends a great deal on monthly, quarterly, and annual proficiency training and is a cooperative effort with allied agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LINK TO VIDEO: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/418149094487770<\/a><\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n CONTACT: First Sergeant James Lyles, (410) 238-5800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (SYKESVILLE, MD) \u2013 The Maryland State Police Aviation Command rescued a hiker, who became injured after slipping and falling from the top of a cliff onto a train tunnel in Carroll County on Friday. \u00a0 Shortly after 3 p.m. on November 1, Carroll County EMS and Fire Department personnel responded to the area of Gaither Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29318,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions\/29318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}