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Seven Acre Rock lookout rescue sees collaboration between services

On Friday 2 June, Emergency services were paged to a rescue on the night at the Seven Acre Rock lookout in Gembrook.

The patient had fallen over the cliff edge from the lookout and was checked over by Ambulance Victoria before ropes teams from Wandin Fire Brigade, Monbulk Fire and Rescue (CFA), Fire Rescue Victoria and Victoria Police repelled down to the ledge the patient was on.

Crews managed to get him up to the safety of the top of The Rock with support from Gembrook Rural Fire Brigade and the Upper Yarra SES Unit, with an air ambulance and a police helicopter also at the scene.

Once the patient was on the rock, all services banded together to conduct a relay of the stretcher until the patient was off the rock face and able to be loaded into Upper Yarra SES’ waiting mule.

The patient was gently manoeuvred down the path back to a waiting ambulance and left in the hands of paramedics.

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