Copacabana Rural Fire Service was called out to assist other emergency services on Sunday, March 12, when a teenager fell down a cliff.
The young male suffered a severe leg injury after falling down a cliff at Captain Cook Lookout at Copacabana.
A special operations paramedic was lowered to the teenager to assist the NSW Fire and Rescue ground crew haul him to safety via a vertical rope rescue while Toll Ambulance Helicopter was on standby overhead if required.
The Copacabana RFS crew assisted paramedics and Fire and Rescue with manpower and transporting the teenager to an ambulance in the lookout car park.
The teenager was treated by Ambulance paramedics when he safely landed at the top of the cliff before being transported by road to Gosford Hospital.
Sue Murray