Swanage joined forces with our colleagues from St Albans and Kimmeridge Coastguard today to effect the rescue of a walker who slipped on the Coast Path and broke a leg.
The casualty was injured in the valley to the West of Chapmans Pool, and although we were able to walk the SW Ambulance paramedics in easily enough, a stretcher carry-out was always going to be difficult, painful for the casualty and not without risk. On that basis, the Coastguard helicopter attended and airlifted the lady to hospital.
Despite calling on the helicopter, the teams still set up for a cliff rescue; it's always good to have a Plan B, just in case the helicopter can't perform the rescue or gets called away elsewhere.
Fortunately, all went well and Plan B wasn't required today and we wish the lady a speedy recovery.
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