First-Responders Search -- And Search -- For Injured Woman In Railyard
WBBM's Steve Miller
(CBS) -- The Chicago Fire Department says a young woman sprained her ankle taking a short cut through a South Side rail yard this morning, and it took rescuers about an hour and a half to find her.
The woman was not where people are supposed to go, authorities say.
Looking for a short cut through a large rail yard north of the Back of the Yards neighborhood, she made it over a fence and then fell and sprained her ankle and couldn't walk.
Fire Department Spokesman Larry Langford says the woman called 911 and an ambulance was sent. But paramedics couldn't find her.
And neither could a fire engine and fire truck.
"But she was able to stay on the telephone with the 911 operators, and they kept relaying information over the air as to what she could see or hear," Langford tells WBBM.
"They would ask her if she could hear the horns being blown by the fire department vehicles and the sirens being activated."
Finally, the woman was located with the help of a helicopter.
Langford says -- in all -- about 18 people were part of the rescue.
