A driver was seriously injured after his car fell approximately 500 feet over a cliff on a Mount Tamalpais road in Marin County on Friday night, officials said.
Henry-1 responded to a vehicle that fell 530 feet down a hillside on Mount Tamalpais, April 28, 2023.A driver was seriously injured after his car fell approximately 530 feet over a cliff on a Mount Tamalpais road in Marin County on Friday night, officialsMultiple agencies, including three helicopters, came to the rescue of the driver, who had fallen into a ravine from Ridgecrest Boulevard just before 8 p.m., according to a report from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.
Three U.S. Air Force airmen, who saw the car fall, initially responded; they “made their way down” down to the car and attempted to provide medical aid, the report said. Next, a captain with the Marin County Fire Department reportedly rapelled down to the site of the vehicle and started life-saving measures on the driver.
The Henry-1 used a 200-foot-long line to also drop a paramedic and equipment for extricating the driver from the car to the site. Sheriff's office spokesperson Rob Dillion told SFGATE the officers who operate the long line are specially trained and the line can pinpoint where to drop a person on a cliff to help an injured person.
“After an extended extrication, the patient was removed from the vehicle and packaged on a traverse rescue stretcher,” the report said. The Henry-1 lifted the injured driver and the paramedic with the long line to a waiting ambulance. The ambulance rushed the driver to the REACH helicopter, which transported the driver “to a local trauma center with major injuries,” the report said.
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