Female hiker suffers severe ankle injury on Elk Mountain trail
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Comanche County Public Safety
02:50
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00:00
Yes, ma'am. Do you have an approximate ETA by chance to Sunset?
00:05
About 15 minutes.
00:08
Good copy.
00:10
Thank you.
00:20
Made contact with the female hikers.
00:23
They're right at the trailhead to Elk Mountain.
00:27
Rescue fire is still en route.
00:29
We're gonna carry her on out.
00:31
Keep you updated.
00:37
So far. Rescue 66 on Fireground 3.
00:43
Go ahead, Refuge 66.
00:47
Yes ma'am, you can show myself at Sunset.
00:52
We'll be offloading here shortly and going in for what sounds like a short hike.
00:57
Our refuge LEs made contact.
01:00
Sounds like they're just probably 100 feet to 200 up the trailhead with a pretty.
01:06
Severely broken ankle.
01:11
Clear rescue 66 .
01:18
Rescue to dispatch, can you show PSO on scene?
01:25
Rapid 66 on fire ground three.
01:30
Go ahead, sir.
01:33
Yes, ma'am.
01:34
Sound like we got a girl with a pretty banged up ankle here.
01:38
We're hiking in.
01:39
She's just about a hundred foot across the bridge.
01:42
Hopefully by the time you get here, we'll have her pretty close to the parking lot.
01:47
We're clear.
01:48
We've got about a five-minute ETA to you.
01:52
Good copy, thank you.
01:59
117, fire dispatch.
02:05
Go ahead, 117.
02:08
Yes, ma'am. Will you see if Survival Flight will launch?
02:15
To be determined.
02:16
Give me just a 2nd .
02:21
Seventeen, RQ sixty-six.
02:27
One 17 , go ahead.
02:30
Yes, sir. We're going to go ahead and launch Survival Flight on this.
02:33
If we land them, where is your LZ at?
02:38
For Sunset, it's going to be at the upper parking lot.
02:42
Not certain if we'll need them, and I would imagine they're probably going to refuse.
02:47
But I'll get you more information here shortly.