EBS STAFF
A smokejumper with the Custer Gallatin National Forest was rescued June 10 after sustaining a leg injury during a parachute training exercise in Yellowstone National Park.
The injury occurred after the jumper was pushed off course by winds from an approaching thunderstorm and landed in dense forest about a mile inside the park boundary, roughly 7 miles north of West Yellowstone, according to a press release from the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office.
Rescue crews from Gallatin County Search and Rescue and the Hebgen Basin Rural Fire District responded on foot. The jumper was treated at the scene and carried out using a one-wheeled litter, according to the release.
An Idaho-based medical helicopter was able to land nearby and transported the patient to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center for further care.
Gallatin County Sheriff Dan Springer thanked the agencies involved and extended well wishes to the injured smokejumper.
