A BASE jumper was injured Saturday when his parachute didn’t open correctly.
Brett Broman from Superstition Fire and Medical said the jumper made his leap from roughly a 5,500 foot at the Superstition Mountains.
#BREAKING SFMD assisting with injured base jumper in Superstition Mtns. pic.twitter.com/UoTWD4pbA8
— SFMD (@sfmd_az_gov) December 3, 2016
According to Broman, the 36-year-old man’s parachute failed to open properly and he tumbled nearly 40 feet landing on a boulder in the foothills.
Crews were able to rescue the patient from that location and he is being transferred to a trauma center in Scottsdale with a hip fracture.
Pt extricated by FOX helicopter to LZ for xport by AirEvac to trauma hospital. pic.twitter.com/xyLqIFeyUx
— SFMD (@sfmd_az_gov) December 3, 2016
