A senior was airlifted to hospital after falling off a cliff at NanaimoB次元官网网址檚 Pipers Lagoon Park last night.

Nanaimo Fire Rescue and B.C. Ambulance crews were called to the park at about 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, after a man in his 60s fell from atop an 18-metre cliff onto rocks at the north end of the park.

Firefighters were called to conduct a rope rescue operation to lift the victim from the bottom of the cliff.

B次元官网网址淎fter recon-ing where the patient was, we brought in all resources to create a rope rescue team, due to the terrain,B次元官网网址� said Troy Libbus, Nanaimo Fire Rescue assistant chief. B次元官网网址淲e had all resources and hands on deck to get the patient out. B.C. Ambulance had already called for a helicopter and it was on standby on the grass at [the] park.B次元官网网址�

Libbus said the victim suffered head injuries from the fall and was unconscious when emergency crews arrived, but was in and out of consciousness as he was delivered to an ambulance, which transferred him to the helicopter.

B次元官网网址淭he rope rescue team brought him up and we packaged him and took him up in a Stokes basket and took him out to the ambulance B次元官网网址� to get him on the helicopter and shipped away,B次元官网网址� Libbus said.

Libbus did not know which hospital the patient was flown to and did not have updated information about the manB次元官网网址檚 condition. The entire rescue operation was completed within about one hour.

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