Chelmsford police sergeant carried 5 miles down mountain after medical emergency in N.H.

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New Hampshire officers tried a helicopter rescue, however thunderstorms and clouds compelled a change of plans.

Rescuers carried a Chelmsford police sergeant down New Hampshire’s Mount Moriah Saturday after he was stricken with a “probably severe” medical situation whereas on the mountain, officers stated.

New Hampshire Fish and Recreation conservation officers have been contacted for assist round 1:10 p.m. after 49-year-old Stephen Fredericks started experiencing medical points on the Carter-Moriah Path close to the summit of Mount Moriah, the company stated in a press launch.

Fredericks misplaced consciousness for an unknown cause, WCVB reported. 

Chelmsford Police Sgt. Stephen Fredericks. – Chelmsford Police Division/Fb

Given Fredericks’s signs and distance from the closest street, officers requested the New Hampshire Military Nationwide Guard to ship a helicopter, in response to the N.H. Fish and Recreation launch. 

Whereas a Blackhawk flew up from Harmony, thunderstorms and clouds over the mountain prevented it from rescuing Fredericks, the company stated. As a substitute, volunteers with Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue hiked almost 5 miles with a rescue litter. 

AVSAR volunteers, conservation officers, and Fredericks’s climbing companions carried him out on the litter, in response to the press launch. The rescue crew arrived on the trailhead at 12:35 a.m. on Sunday — almost 12 hours after the preliminary name for assist — and Fredericks was taken to Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin by ambulance. 

N.H. Fish and Recreation supplied no additional info on Fredericks’s situation however famous that he’s an skilled hiker who had plans to hike the Carter Vary with eight companions.

“He possessed all the suitable gear in addition to extra gear as he was planning an in a single day climbing journey,” the company stated.

Chelmsford Police Chief Colin Spence instructed WCVB that Fredericks was with different members of the police division, who’re educated as EMTs and have been capable of present care earlier than and in the course of the rescue. 

“Our ideas and prayers are along with his household presently,” Spence instructed WCVB. 

“We’re pleased that our officers had the superior medical coaching that they’ve and have been capable of present that help,” he added. “We want to categorical our due to all the departments concerned within the rescue effort.”