MAN RESCUED AFTER FALLING ON BRAY HEAD
WICKLOW’S Mountain Rescue Teams brought a man to safety from Bray Head on Sunday in one of two call-outs over the weekend.
On Sunday, January 28, the National Ambulance Service alerted both the Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team and the Glen of Imaal Mountain Rescue Team after a man fell from height while descending from the summit of Bray Head at around 2.39 p.m.
He was assisted at the scene by team members before being packed into a stretcher and evacuated to a waiting ambulance. The incident was stood down at 3.47 p.m.
At 3.19 p.m. the previous day the two teams were tasked by the gardaí to help a hill walker with a suspected lower leg injury in Glendalough.
A mountain rescue team member happened to be out walking in the area when she came across a man descending from the Miner’s Village who appeared to be in difficulty. She assessed the man’s injury and called for additional back-up.
Rescue personnel from both teams walked to the site and placed the walker’s leg in a splint before he was stretchered down to the Miner’s Village.
There, he was assessed by a mountain rescue doctor before being transported to hospital for further care by a friend. The operation was stood down at 4.55 p.m.
This brings to seven the number of times both teams have been called out already this year.