While our drone team were already deployed at the Goyt Moorland Fire, the rest of the team were called out to Thor's Cave to a report of someone being unconscious having fallen 50ft from the west window of the cave.
The team, West Midlands Air Ambulance, West Midlands Ambulance Service, and West Midlands Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) teams were all called to the scene.
On arriving on scene it transpired that the lady had slipped on the path, hit a tree and stumbled off the path tumbling some distance down the slope from the path, but had not fallen from the west window and was not believed to have lost consciousness.
She was treated on scene by the air ambulance and WMAS for suspected fractured ribs, and injuries to her face and arm.
She was packaged in our vacuum mattress and hauled up the hill to the path by the team and WMAS HART.
The lady was carried some distance to the roadbed where she was transferred to the care of a WMAS Land Ambulance crew for onward transport to the Royal Stoke Hospital.
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