Two-hour rescue operation to help teenage who fell into Blairgowrie gorge

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A two-hour rescue operation was carried out near Blairgowrie earlier this week after a teenager fell into a gorge.Emergency services raced to the scene at Cargill’s Leap on Monday evening after receiving reports of a person “in difficulty”.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent two units and firefighters attended with special appliances, including water and line rescue equipment.The fire crews assisted Blairgowrie-based Tayside Mountain Rescue in the operation and the person was extracted safely within a couple of hours.They were then taken to hospital.A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 7.31pm on Monday, July 10, to reports of a person in difficulty at Cargill’s Leap, Blairgowrie.“Operations Control mobilised two appliances and a number of specialist resources, including water and line rescue to the area where firefighters assisted Mountain Rescue in the rescue of one casualty who had fallen down an embankment.“Crews left the scene at 9.30pm once the casualty had been brought to land.”A statement from Tayside Mountain Rescue read: “The team was called out last night [Monday] to work alongside our colleagues at SFRS with the complex extraction of a teenager who had fallen into a gorge in the Blairgowrie area.“We wish the casualty a speedy recovery.“If you require Mountain Rescue, phone 999, ask for the police, then mountain rescue.”They added: “The Tayside Mountain Rescue team is made up entirely of volunteers who live in the operational area.“A wide variety of professions can be found in the team.

All are skilled and experienced mountaineers.“Team members are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to help anyone who is in trouble in the mountains.“We rely on