[Update: Horse Riding Accident] CAL FIRE Helicopter Among Responders to Medical Emergency Near Orick Rodeo Grounds
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Emergency responders including a CAL FIRE helicopter were dispatched Monday to a medical call off Dryden Road near the Orick Rodeo grounds, according to scanner traffic.
CAL FIRE Helicopter C602 was responding to the scene with an estimated arrival of approximately 12:50 p.m. CAL FIRE Trinidad, Orick Fire, and Arcata Ambulance were also requested. The patient was reported to be a 25-36-year-old woman.
The nature of the medical emergency was not immediately known.
This is a developing story. Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
Update 1:20 p.m.: A 25-36-year-old woman is being transported for medical care after a horse rolled over on her, according to scanner traffic.
Update 1:38 p.m.: New details via emergency channels indicate the patient is a 36-year-old woman who fell from her horse after it tripped on a branch. The horse rolled over her, leaving her with pain to her left side. She briefly lost consciousness but was alert at the time of the report.
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Hope that wasn’t one of the buckuretes who provide horse back rides into redwood Park. And lets hope whoever will recover soon. Cal fire helicopter would be the quickest way to extract from there.
That’s good to hear. I hope the horse can make it back to the stable.
Horses are a dangerous animal. Nearly everyone I know who has had anything to do with them ends up seriously injured. One woman paralyzed from the neck down. Another killed when she got thrown off and broke her head. Someone kicked in the head and made retarded.
Ill take nuts and bolts any day.
Yes…
I’s raised around ’em and I’d agree the odds are very high yer gonna get hurt if you equest much.
Honestly, if you’re still going to use the r word, at least be intelligent enough to use it correctly based on what that outdated term meant. It meant development delayed. If you’re not going to be a good person, the least you can do is be a factual person.
Even if that’s very very true and I’m sure it is I wouldn’t not let that stop me from getting on a horse again and I mean I’ve already got a broken f****** back and a busted brain I have nothing else to lose Sweetie I might as well get back on a horse but I don’t have a horse anymore that was a long time ago in my life and after a lot of physical abuse beating into my brain already from a man a mouse I was married to and gave him two baby girls that don’t like me either and I don’t like them either they gave me restraining orders because I told the truth about my own family and their God damn filth because as they made some big boo boos in life not my mistakes though it definitely was their fatal move by serving me with a restraining order they’ve been taken out of my will one person will get everything I own one and it’s not those b****** I gave birth to so so bad girls this is the spanking you never ever got from your mother and my last will and testament. The end of my s*** story and family. You can just say that’s the Easthams not me I’m the ex and they’re the spawn from the dead X and they’re like him and it’s f***** up style he lived there are no different than their sperm donor. AKA my first Dead ex husband and the end of my f***** up story and family.
Jezz move on Lisa!!! I think the subject was horses. You really are giving these people too much power and time life is too short to dwell on the negative. Find your happiness.
Wow, that was a LONG sentence and quite a rant. Take some deep breaths.
Because only 30,000 people are killed by “nuts and bolts” (cars) every year.
I’ve known more people killed from quad runners and I’ve been riding horses 57 years. I’ve only known one person killed by a horse and she was kicked in the head when in the corral. Horses may be unpredictable and many people can be careless but quad runners come with no training and weigh 600 lbs. Also they do not move when they roll on you. It’s a ranch tool not an OHV toy. I hope the rider makes a full recovery. Orick can be slick and steep and the trails are shaded with lots of roots crossing the trails. Sounds like a heck of a wreck.
That doesn’t really mean much. Really anything you do with any sort of regularity or frequency that involves increased physical risk will subject you to that at some point or another.
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They all read like they got kicked in the head by a horse.