An injured man had to be pulled off a 200-foot hillside at Creve Coeur Park on Sunday after suffering a traumatic injury that left him unable to walk back to the trail. Bystanders stepped in first, applying a makeshift tourniquet to control his bleeding before rescue crews arrived and rigged a rope system to bring him down safely.
The rescue unfolded as firefighters helped an injured man on the steep slope, according to the KMOV account of the incident, which cited the Maryland Heights Fire Protection District. The man could not make it back to the trail on his own, according to First Alert 4, leaving him stranded on the hillside until help reached him.
Bystanders Acted Before Crews Arrived
Before rescue crews even got there, bystanders on the scene applied a makeshift tourniquet to control the man's bleeding, the station reported. That intervention came ahead of any formal medical response, underscoring how much depended on the people already on the trail that day.
Once firefighters arrived, they used a rope system to lower the patient from the hillside onto the main trail, according to KFVS12. The operation involved a descent from the steep, 200-foot slope to the main trail.
UTV Carried Patient To Waiting Ambulance
From the main trail, crews transported the injured patient on a UTV to a waiting ambulance, which then carried him to a hospital, the same outlet's report noted. The multi-step extraction, from hillside to trail to UTV to ambulance, reflects the terrain challenge crews faced in reaching someone hurt well off the beaten path.
Details about the man's identity, the exact nature of his injury and his condition after arriving at the hospital have not been released. The circumstances that led to the injury on the hillside also remain unclear.
