Monday the 13th

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Photo by Lee Krohn At least 18 responders helped evacuate a 70-year-old woman who fell and injured her leg hiking on Mt. Philo shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Monday, June 13. Charlotte Fire and Rescue chief Dick St. George said the woman was hiking on the Devil’s Chair Trail, the oldest trail on the mountain and the trickiest to evacuate someone from. Besides Charlotte, responders came from Ferrisburgh, Shelburne and the park ranger. Getting the injured woman to the ambulance took almost two hours and extensive rope, rigging equipment and complicated belays, St. George said, ‘We never would have gotten her out without the mutual aid manpower.’
Photo by Lee Krohn. 

At least 18 responders helped evacuate a 70-year-old woman who fell and injured her leg hiking on Mt. Philo shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Monday, June 13. Charlotte Fire and Rescue chief Dick St. George said the woman was hiking on the Devil’s Chair Trail, the oldest trail on the mountain and the trickiest to evacuate someone from. Besides Charlotte, responders came from Ferrisburgh, Shelburne and the park ranger. Getting the injured woman to the ambulance took almost two hours and extensive rope, rigging equipment and complicated belays, St. George said, ‘We never would have gotten her out without the mutual aid manpower.’

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