An adult hiker was seriously injured Thursday, Oct. 10, after she fell roughly 25 feet from Harpswell’s Cliff Trail onto a rocky intertidal area, local officials said.
Harpswell first responders received an emergency call just after noon, said Michael Drake, the town’s emergency management agent and fire administrator. The woman had been hiking the trail, behind the Harpswell Town Office, when she fell from the cliff above Long Reach.
The Orr’s and Bailey Islands Fire Department responded with assistance from Harpswell Neck Fire and Rescue, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, the Maine Warden Service and the Harpswell harbor master.
Emergency responders located the hiker and then called upon the harbor master and Sheriff’s Office to deploy Harpswell’s airboat, according to a post on the Harpswell Marine Resources & Harbor Management Facebook page.
The airboat was used to bring another paramedic and medical supplies to the scene, it said. The woman, whom officials didn’t name, was loaded onto the airboat and transported to Princes Point Landing, in Brunswick, where a waiting ambulance rushed her to Maine Medical Center, in Portland.
“Great teamwork, coordination and tangible resources led to another successful outcome,” the harbor master’s Facebook post said. No updates were available Monday regarding the hiker’s medical condition.
