![]() The last word they had on the woman was from an EMT with the ambulance service who texted them to say “the doctors fixed her up very quickly” and thanking the emergency services crews for “their fine work.” Wayland Area Emergency Medical Services personnel transported her to a Grand Rapids hospital with a broken leg in the knee area, Miller said. The time from the call to central dispatch and when the woman was located and in the ambulance was between 20 and 25 minutes, Miller said. Hopkins firefighters brought the woman out to a staging area set up at the Graves Hill trail parking area off Gun Lake Road. ![]() “We immediately called Hopkins Fire Department for assistance because they have a Utility Terrain Vehicle with tracks which is more stable than our vehicle which has narrower wheels,” Miller said. Wayland/Yankee Springs Township Fire Department was busy Sunday afternoon with two calls a hiker who fell on a trail in the township and a traffic crash just down the road from the fire station.Ī woman from the Hemlock area hiking in the Graves Hill-North Country Trail area with her husband and child Sunday fell and injured her leg, according to the department’s Deputy Fire Chief Dan Miller.īarry Central Dispatch notified the firefighters about 1 p.m., and using GPS, sent the woman’s approximate location to firefighters who were able to pinpoint the family and bring the woman out to a waiting ambulance.
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