ROGERS, Ky. (FOX 56) — Responders with the Wolfe County Search and Rescue Team (WCSART) helped get a man to safety after he fell from several cliffs in Wolfe County on Friday afternoon.
Officials said the man had been away from home overnight, prompting a search from the rescue team and the Wolfe County Sheriff’s Department on July 18.
Around 12:30 p.m., rescue team members were dispatched to Tarr Ridge Road in Rogers. While searching, deputies heard a cry for help below a cliff.
“The individual had apparently fallen off a 50 ft cliff, then continued to tumble down a steep hill and a series of smaller cliffs, severely injuring himself along the way,” officials wrote.
Rescue team members, including a paramedic, rappelled down to the survivor to evaluate what had happened while other members set up a rope system above a nearby cliff line, WCSART wrote. After an initial treatment where he had fallen, he was hoisted and carried out of the woods in a Stokes basket and carried out of the woods, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to Clark Regional Hospital.
Rescue team members securing a patient in a stokes basket on saturday afternoon after he survived falling over 50 feet. (wolfe county search and rescue team)The man was carried to safety before emergency personnel took him to clark regional hospital with severe injuries. (wolfe county search and rescue team)
Wolfe County rescue officials said Friday’s mission was an important one, marking the group’s first rescue in partnership with Morgan County KY EMS as the “Wilderness response unit.”
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