Teen rescued, airlifted after falling 60 toes on Maine mountain

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The teenager was climbing off-trail with a buddy when he slipped and fell 60 toes down Tumbledown Mountain, Maine officers stated.

Maine wardens, forest rangers, and volunteer rescue personnel prepared 15-year-old Kyle Lund to be hoisted to a ready helicopter. Maine Division of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

A 15-year-old boy was airlifted off of Tumbledown Mountain in Maine after breaking his leg in a fall Sunday afternoon.

A Maine forest ranger is lowered to help on the scene the place a 15-year-old broke his leg falling down Tumbledown Mountain in Maine. – Maine Division of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

Kyle Lund, of Dixfield, was climbing with a buddy off-trail close to the Loop Path when he slipped and fell 60 toes down the mountain, the Maine Division of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife stated in a information launch. 

The teenager sustained a compound fracture on his left leg through the fall, which occurred shortly earlier than 2 p.m. 

Sport wardens, volunteers from Franklin Search and Rescue and Mahoosuc Mountain Rescue, and members of the Weld, Wilton, and Carthage hearth departments hiked greater than a mile to the place Lund had fallen, in keeping with the information launch. 

As a result of severity of his fracture, the primary responders determined to fly Lund out by way of Maine Forest Service helicopter. They carried him up the mountain to an open space, and a helicopter arrived and lifted Lund up simply after 5 p.m. 

He was later transferred to Franklin Memorial Hospital after which Maine Medical Middle for additional therapy, the Maine Division of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife stated.