SD Firefighters Rescue Man after 100-Foot Fall into Crevasse

Oct. 11, 2020

Interior Volunteer Fire Department firefighters needed to call in a Black Hawk helicopter to hoist an injured man out of the deep, inaccessible crevasse in the Badlands National Park.

Source Rapid City Journal, S.D.

Interior, SD, firefighters called in a National Guard Black Hawk helicopter to help rescue a man who fell about 100 feet into a crevasse Saturday in the Badlands National Park

The Interior Volunteer Fire Department responded to the Norbeck Pass area in the Badlands National Park for a report of a man being trapped after a fall.

Upon arrival, volunteer firefighters and park rangers discovered that a 33-year-old man had fallen about 100 feet into a deep, inaccessible crevasse and was suffering from injuries to the head and lower legs.

Multiple attempts were unsuccessful in reaching the man and extracting him with technical rope and other techniques.

The National Park Service was able to call in a South Dakota National Guard, Black Hawk helicopter with hoist capability.

The patient was successfully hoisted from the crevasse and turned over to the Kadoka Ambulance Service for further care and ground transport to Monument Hospital at approximately 8:45 p.m., Saturday.

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