At 1336 hours, the Union Fire Company No. 1 was alerted to Camp Tweedale in the 500 block of Bethel Road, Lower Oxford for a injured person. Responding units were advised of an injured hiker down an steep embankment along the shore of the Octoraro Reservoir.
Chief 21 (Prettyman) and Ambulance 21-2 arrived and located the patient on the eastern shoreline in a wooded area of the camp.
Fire Crews moved portable rescue equipment into the staging area and rigged a Stokes basket for low angle rescue to extricate the patient.
The patient was successfully extricated at 1414 hours and transported to the local hospital for treatment.