August 13, 2009

Called to the Long Trail, 1/2 mile south of Montclair Glen Lodge for a report of a hiker with a fractured femur. Call came from a hiker who found a note at the Montclair Glen Lodge with information about the hiker, injury, and location. Team responded and placed a cast on the fractured leg. Patient was evacuated down the Forest City Trail. This response was unusual because we had accurate information on patient location and injury.

July 30, 2009

Called to an hiker with a back injury on the Long Trail,, 2/10s of a mile from the Alpine Trail intersection. Because there are two intersections with the Alpine Trail (one north of Camel's Hump and one to the south of Camel's Hump) this involved some guess work. Patient was found to be to the south. Due to the dispatch information teams went in on the Monroe trail. When the patient was located it was decided to evauate the patient down Wind Gap and out via the Forest City Trail down to the Huntington side of the mountain.

July 18, 2009

Responded to the Bamforth Ridge Trail (Long Trail) on Camels Hump for 5 hikers without flashlights at the Bamforth ridge Shelter. Hasty team went in with extra lights and discussed options (spending the night or hiking out in the darkness) with the hikers. They opted to hike out at night. Trails were very wet and muddy from recent rains.

July 16, 2009

Responded to the Bamforth Ridge Trail (Long Trail). A 14-year old hiker from New York fell on the Bamforth Ridge Trail injuring an ankle. Highly confusing and inconsistent messages from his group via cell phone concerned rescuers with the actual severity of the injury. WBRT reached the patient at the Bamforth Shelter at 22:19. He was evacuated to the trail head at 03:14 then transported to Fletcher Allen Health Care by Richmond Rescue.

July 15, 2009

Responded for mutual aid from Mad River Valley Ambulance Service at the Lincoln Gap Trail Head for a male patient with a knee injury at the Batell Lodge on the Long Trail. Patient was evacuated down the Batell Trail to Lincoln. Patient was transported to FAHC by Bristol Ambulance.

June 27, 2009

Responded to the Huntington side of Camels Hump to assist a male hiker with an injured knee. Pt was on the Long Trail north of Wind Gap.

May 31, 2009

Called to assist MRVAS with a person who had fallen off a cliff near Moretown village, exact location unknown. Unable to call back to initial caller. It was later determined that the caller also had fallen at a different location. Patient #1 was located prior to our arrival and MRVAS went in to retrive her. Patient #2 was located right after our arrival. The area has several levels of cliffs and ledges and directions were not clear on what level the patient was on.

May 2, 2009

Called to Camels Hump to assist a female hiker with an ankle injury on the Monroe Trail below the snow line. There were several people with her and between them they had 1 flashlight and all were in shorts. The team met the patient around the Monroe-Dean trail intersection and the carryout went smoothly. It should be noted that the trails are currently closed for hiking until Memorial day.

August 31, 2008

Called to Camels Hump for an ankle injury on the Monroe Trail above the Alpine trail. Due to the holiday weekend there was little initial response. Called SMR and RBT, both of which also had limited response. Col Tech and UVWRT were able to field a team. While Teams 1 & 2 were hiking to the patient we were allerted that there was a second injury on the Burrows trail. GMC responded to that patient while Team 1 attended to the intial patient. Also called VSP and NCWT both teams started working on a response. Patient 2 was working her way out with asisstance from other hikers. Called and cancelled VSP and NCWT. Evacuated the initial patient on the stokes. During the evac UVWRT received a call for a search involving a lost hiker. After the evac they headed off to that call.

July 4, 2008

Called to Camels Hump for an ankle injury on the Alpine trail. Brian Lindner arrived on scene and the patient was walked out.

June 16, 2008

Rescue on Mt. Hunger

January 15, 2008

Responded with other agencies to a report of a gunshot wound on MEaker Road in Duxbury. Patient was hit in the arm and leg. Mad River Valley Ambulance used their rescue sled to bring the patient to the Dowsville Road where the patient was transferred to Waterbury Ambulance.

November 17, 2007

Called to evacuate a hunter from the woods who sustained numerousw injuries when he fell from his tree stand. The hunter was in the ground for approximately 2 hours before being located by friends who called for our response.

October 20, 2007

Called to assist with the search in the Fairfax area for a missing person with Alzeimers. Team was cancelled enroute when person was located

October X, 2007

Responded to Burnt Rock on the Long Trail again for a report of a hiker with an injured shoulder. Hasty team reduced a shoulder dislocation walked the hiker out.

September 29/30, 2007

Responded to the Long Trail (Burnt Rock area) for a report of a hiker with an ankle injury. Hiker was located just south of Ira Allen Mt. The anke was stabalized and evacuated with a stokes.d

August 21, 2007

A 46 year-old female hiker slipped on wet rocks and suffered a fracture/dislocation of her lower left leg. The patient was unable to move from the water saturated location and laid in the water until WBRT arrived on scene. The patient was in extreme pain and Tim Burdick MD administered pain meds about ˝ way down yet the pain level continued to increase

June 22, 2007

A 24-year old female hiker from Waterbury slipped and sprained her left ankle at an approximate elevation of 2,320’ on Hunger Mountain. Her fiancé called Capital West to request a rescue as the hiker was unable to continue on her own. The initial tone was at 14:35. Hasty Team #1 reached the patient at 16:37. With help from Stowe Mountain Rescue and Colchester Technical Rescue, the patient was evacuated by Stokes Litter and reached the base of the trail at 18:22. She declined transport to the hospital and left by private car. 18 rescuers participated.

June 7, 2007

Report of a mountain biker with an injured ankle in the Grand Desert area in Putnam Forest. Team responded with WASI, stabalized the ankle, and evacuated the patient on the stokes. Patient was transported the the hospital via private vehicle.

November 12, 2006

An older female who was reported missing in the Westford, Vt area. Assisted VSP in searching the area. The subject was not located

September 18, 2006

A 70 y.o. male injured his knee on the Forest City Trail on the Huntington side of Camels Hump. The intial call for EMS was about 1515. at 1646 WBRT was put on stand-by, then at 1743 we were dispatched.

July 30, 2006

Toned out to assist Mad River Valley Ambulance at Warren Falls to extract a 15 y.o. female who had fallen 15 feet. Cancelled enroute.

July 22, 2006

Mutual Aid request from Mad River Valley Ambulance for a male hiker who had "blown out his knee" on Lincoln Peak. Hiker called back cancelling response and denied treatment and teansport.

July 13/14, 2006

Toned out to assist Mad River Valley Ambulance to assist with evacuation of a hiker 2.5 miles above the North Fayston road in the area of Big Basin, with an anke injury. The patient was reached at 02:02 and evacuated with a stokes down the Hedgehog Brook trail.

July 22, 2006

Toned out to assist Mad River Valley Ambulance to assist with evacuation of a hiker injured on the Long Trail above Sugarbush. Team was cancelled en-route.

June 30, 2006

Toned out to assist Mad River Valley Ambulance to assist with evacuation of a female fallen in Warren Falls.

June 17, 2006

The Vermont State Police Search & Rescue Team requested assistance by other other local SAR teams in the body/evidence serch in the case of a 19 y.o. female who vanished in 2004 under suspicious circumstances. We assisted with the ground search.

March 10, 2006

Assisted Vt State Police SAR Team with the search for a 43 y.o. male reported missing from Williston on February 21. His car was located in the Little River area near the dam. The area had been hit with a heavy snow storm on March 2/3. Teams searched both sides of Little River including Ricker Mt and the CCC Camp Smith on the South plateau of the dam. The subject was located at 18:15 near the old trail going up to the former water tanks above Camp Smith.

September 18/19, 2005

A 32 y.o. male Went for a hike at 1700 from the North Duxbury Trailhead. After entering the woods looking for a hiking stick he headed up the mountain off the trail to avoind a group of loud hikers and became lost before he could relocate the Monroe Trail or parking area. He continued to wander uphill until instructed otherwise. We put two members on the trails (D. Cutler, T. Strasser) during overnight calling to him. He did not have adequate food or clothing. Subject emerged on his own on Marshall Road in Duxbury at 10:10 the next morning.

August 05, 2005

Responded to female mt biker on Rastaman Mt Bike Trail in the Putnam State Forest. Cell Phone GPS placed her in an area of the trailnear Mile Marker 62 on I-89. She was removed with a stokes to I-89 where the ambulance was staged.

July 19, 2005

Appoximately 25 y.o. male hiker who took a significant fall about a 1/4 mile up the Cliff Trail above the Cliff House on Mt Mansfield. Pt sustained lower back and possible internal injuries. Stowe Mt Rescue provided medical care, WBRT assisted with the litter evacuation down to the Cliff House where he was loaded onto the gondola.

June 11, 2005

Responded to Smugglers Notch where a hiker fell up in Hidden Vally on the western side of the notch. The patient suffered a serious head injury and was combative during the evacuation.

May 21, 2005

While participating in a SAR training exercise with the Civil Air Patrol on Mt Abraham in Warren, a member of the Search Dogs Northeast K-9 suffered an ACL and MCL injury, plus a tibia plateau fracture when she was caught between her dog and another with some hikers. Radio and cell phone communications were near 0.0 but Lincoln and Bristol Rescue squads were called via Vt State Police in Williston. The patient was placed on a stokes and transported down the Battell trail to Lincoln.

September 03, 2004

A hiker on the Hunger Mt trail called 911 to report a hiker with an ankle injury. The initial caller continued with their hike and there was no ability to talk to the patient for further information. Interviews with descending hikers provided additional information and that the patient was an older female and would require a number of people to evacuate her. The patient was found on a rock in the middle of the brook at the waterfalls (about 25 feet from the location of the call last week). The patient was evacuated with the stokes. There were a total of 23 rescuers for this call.

August 31, 2004

911 received a call for a 38 y.o. female hiker with a fractured ankle about 1 mile up the Hunger Mt Trail. The hiker was experienced and with her husband of 3 days she was well equiped. She was brought out on a stokes. There were a total of 22 rescuers.

May 05/06, 2004

Called to assist with bringing a female hiker down from Camels Hump on a stokes on the Bamforth Ridge trail.

January 17, 2004

A 911 call from two skiers who were tired and might not be able to reach the snowmobile trail parking at Little River. Vermont State Police Auxillary went in with snowmobiles from the parking lot and found the skiers at the first southbound junction on the Woodard Hill Road. The skiers were transported to the parking lot. Both men were tired and cold but otherwise uninjured.

October 03, 2003

A 911 call for an injured mt biker on the "Snow Brook Trail" near Waterbury Dam. There is no known trail by that name in the area but there is a Cotton Brook Trail at the other end of the reservoir. Stowe Hazardous Terrain went up that trail and located the patient. WBRT staged at Base 24 until the patient was located.

August 05, 2003

Mutual aid to assist Moretown Fire Dept and Berlin Fire Dept with the evacuation of an injured power line worker from a location about 1/4 mile off the road.

June 22, 2003

Mutual aid to assist Stowe Hazardous Terrain Team searching for missing 77 y.o. male hiker at Stowe Mountain Resort. Rescue completed when hiker was located on the other side of the mountain at the Underhill State Park.

January 11, 2003

Mutual aid to assist Stowe Hazardous Terrain Team with the search for a 41 y.o. missing skier at Stowe Mountain Resort.

August 05, 2003

Mutual aid to assist Stowe Hazardous Terrain Team in the search for a missing 16 y.o. male snowboarder at Stowe Mountain Resort. Boarder went into a closed area with deep snow, and was found later walking on a trail without his board and winter clothing.

December 29, 2002

Mutual aid to Mad River Glen ski area for one adult and three adolescent skiers lost. Located on the other side of the mountain. They had built a shelter. Walked them down to the Appalachion Gap road.

December 13, 2002

67 y.o. female patient with a fractured ankle found in a limited access basement requiring the stokes basket for evacuation.

November 06, 2002

A 73 y.o. male with altered mental status wandered away from home on Ripley Road. Located later laying in the snow with inadequate clothing on a logging road in the woods. WBRT called to assist the ambulance crew with evacuation.

August 05, 2003

Mutual aid to assist Stowe Hazardous Terrain Team with the evacuation of a 49 y.o. female hiker with a back injury near the summit of Mt Mansfield.

August 05, 2003

Assist Vermont State Police with search for ill prepared hikers on Hunger Mountain. Victims found not far from the trailhead at 2257 with use of siren before we got on scene.

June 24, 2002

48 y.o. female with injured ankle on Camels Hump.