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Climber moderately injured
By Kevin
Walker
The first
thing I want to do is apologize to team members
present and to Ranger Tom Patterson of Joshua
Tree National Monument for any errors I might
have in this article as I was not present. Due to
an error on the editor's part (yours truly) no
write up assignment was made for this mission.
To the best of
my knowledge, Sunday late morning, a climber in
the Joshua Tree National Monument took a fall and
was moderately injured. It was a ground fall, and
a technical rescue was not needed. What was
needed was medical assistance. Knowing that RMRU
had a doctor present, that being Ray Hussey,
Ranger Tom Patterson came over to where RMRU was
training and asked for assistance. Members
present followed Tom back to where the climber
was located. Dr. Ray attended to the patient
while arrangements for helicopter transportation
was made. At first a helicopter from the Highway
Patrol was going to respond, but apparently they
got tied up in something else. Ultimately, a
chopper from the San Bernardino Sheriff's
Department responded and flew the injured subject
to one of the desert hospitals.
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