On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 11:35, CALS was alerted for a high-angle rescue for a patient who had fallen approximately 50’ down a cliff and in the water. Units arrived on location to find a conscious, but injured, elderly woman who had been in the water over an hour before her neighbor heard her screaming and called 911. Volunteer Paramedic Robert Schapiro and a volunteer firefighter from Prince Frederick Volunteer Fire Department climbed down the cliff to assess the patient. They rendered immediate BLS care while the high-angle rescue team and St. Leonard’s zodiac boat simultaneously made access. Rescuers fully immobilized the pt. and secured her in a stokes basket. Volunteer Paramedic Schapiro and the high-angle rescue team then hoisted her up the cliff. Rescuers moved the patient to Ambulance 238. Trooper 2 then flew the patient to a nearby trauma center.
Zodiac 7 in the water at the base of the cliff where the victim was.
Members of the Calvert Co volunteer Technical Rescue Team removing the victim back up the cliff face.
MSP trooper leaving the LZ at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant.