VIDEO/PHOTO: Rescue teams staged a successful operation in the Boundary Waters Sunday after a visitor fell and suffered a serious injury. The St. Louis County Rescue Team posted about the incident on its Facebook page, saying the fall occurred in the area of Angleworm Lake and the Angleworm Trail.
It involved two helicopters, and a large backcountry contingent that included personnel from the Minnesota Air Rescue Team (MART), LifeLink III, Morse-Fall Lake Fire-Rescue, Ely Ambulance, the U.S. Forest Service and Minnesota DNR. “There are many moving parts to an operation of this magnitude, and y’all got ‘er done safely and effectively,” the St. Louis County Rescue Squad posted. St. Paul Deputy Fire Chief Jamie Smith, who serves as spokesperson for MART, confirms that the air rescue team was deployed to St. Louis County around 2 p.m. Sunday, and successfully rescued a male from the BWCA who was “unable to self-ambulance due to a non-life-threatening injury.”
