Tristan Smith
masslive.com
ORANGE, Mass. — The Orange Fire Rescue EMS helicoptered an individual to UMass Memorial Medical Center after the person suffered non-life-threatening injuries during a skydiving incident late Sunday evening.
Jumptown Skydiving notified Orange EMS of the injured skydiver on Sunday just before 7 p.m. Officials said the skydiver’s main and reserve parachutes became entangled with one another, causing the individual to land hard on top of a building in the nearby industrial park.
Health officials have not released the name of the injured skydiver, and the individual’s current condition has not been reported.
Before Orange EMS arrived on the scene, Jumptown staff told first responders that the skydiver was still conscious and was being attended to by EMT-trained staff members, according to officials.
First responders extended an aerial ladder to the top of a Seaman Paper warehouse and fire and EMS personnel made their way to the injured skydiver, according to officials. The person’s Injuries were deemed to be non-life-threatening. However, due to the “mechanism of injuries” and extrication time, officials said they requested a medical helicopter to come to the Orange airport, near where Jumptown is located.
While EMS assessed and tended to the injured person, Jumptown staff worked on safely removing the harness and equipment from the patient, officials said.
“Once the patient was stabilized and loaded into a stokes basket, we were able to slowly move the patient to our ladder truck, and lower him to the ground. This was a very slow and methodical process,” Orange EMS said in a statement.
At 8:28 p.m. emergency officials were able to place the person into an ambulance, transport them to the landing zone and subsequently transport them to UMass Memorial Medical Center via a UMass Memorial LifeFlight helicopter.
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