Rescue on Dallas Road April 8

On April 8 2009, the Victoria Fire Department received a call for assistance from the British Columbia Ambulance Service (BCAS). The call was received at dispatch at approximately 1629 hours, after a para-sailer lost altitude and landed on the cliffs along Dallas Road.

BCAS stated that the man, who was not reported to be seriously injured, was complaining of lower back pain, and they would require assistance to remove him from the cliff face.

The Victoria Fire Department responded with 2 Engines, a Rescue Vehicle and Command vehicle that carried a contingency of eleven Fire Fighters. It took approximately fifty minutes for the members to package the patient into a basket, lower him to the beach, and then carry him up to the top of the cliff to the Ambulance.

Fire crews setting up their equipment and formulizing a plan to extract the patient.

Fire Fighter Cracknell preparing anchore lines.	Fire Fighter Winkler preparing the basket.

Fire Fighters de Bruin, Lester and Winkler checking anchor lines and preparing the basket.

Patient packaged, Fire Fighters Lester, Winkler, de Bruin, and the BCAS attendant begin to move the patient down the cliff.

The team reaches the beach with the patient.

The first team of Fire Fighters Winkler, Lester, de Bruin and Phillips begin the removal of the patient from the beach.	After a hand off, Fire Fighers Moody, Atkinson, Hanley and Lester bring the patient the rest of the way up the cliff to the ambulance.

Fire Fighter Phillips packs up equipment after a successful rescue.