A woman was rushed to hospital by ambulance after falling from a cliff at Pipers Lagoon Park this past weekend.
Nanaimo Fire Rescue, B.C. Ambulance Service, Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue and Nanaimo RCMP responded to the callout at about 7 p.m. Saturday, July 27.
“We were notified of a significant fall in the area of Pipers Lagoon,” said David Dales, Nanaimo Fire Rescue assistant chief. “Traumatic injury. Patient was unconscious, but breathing.”
He said firefighters quickly found the patient on the southeast side of the park at B. Monahan Point, and determined the best course of action to remove her from the scene was to carry her out.
B.C. Ambulance had also launched an air ambulance from Vancouver and a helicopter landed at the park, but the woman was taken instead by ground ambulance to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
“They might have ended up in Vancouver, but from the scene, they were driven … to a local hospital,” Dales said.
He did not have information about the victim’s age or any update on her condition. Dales said the fire department wanted to thank marine resources that responded as mutual aid to the call.
"RCM-SAR happened to be on the water ... and they responded very quickly and were very helpful," he said.
