ROANOKE, Va. – The Roanoke Fire and EMS Department’s HTR team rescued a hiker on Wednesday after the HTR team was notified of an injured hiker on a trail in the Mill Mountain area.
10 News has learned that the patient was reported to have life-threatening injuries and when crews arrived they went to work implementing a rescue strategy for what the department called a “unique situation”.
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Details remain limited at this time but the patient was transported to a nearby hospital and the Roanoke Fire and EMS team said no further details will be released at this time.
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