FIREFIGHTERS have rescued a woman who lay helpless in a marshy part of the New Forest after she fell and sprained her ankle.
Emily Cox, 24, from Ringwood, was walking her dog when she ran into difficulty at Picket Plain Common, near Burley, at around 4.30pm today.
Her father, Julian Cox, from Bournemouth, said: “Emily called to tell me she had fallen down and couldn’t get up.
“I got in the car and pinpointed her location using a special app. She was distressed because it was getting dark and she phoned the police, who kept her on the line. .
“I could see the light from Emily’s phone and managed to reach it, which sometimes meant wading through waist-deep water.
“The fire brigade and the ambulance service arrived very quickly – I can’t praise them highly enough.
“They were so good and so professional, we don’t pay them enough. One of the firefighters was chest deep in a marshy wasteland.
“It was very dark, very cold and very humid.
“Emily was transported on a stretcher with a suspected broken ankle, which turned out to be a serious sprain. She was checked by the ambulance service and I took her home.”
Firefighters and paramedics were called to Picket Plain Common, near Burley (Photo: Simon Rowley)
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service were alerted by police around 5pm.
Crews from Redbridge and Ringwood fire stations were joined by colleagues from Ferndown and Poole in Dorset, as well as paramedics from the South Central Ambulance Service.
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