Farmer hears yelling and finds injured skydiver stuck in tree, Virginia rescuers say

The sound of yelling from high up in the trees led a Virginia farmer to a surprising discovery — a skydiver tangled in the canopy.

The Orange Volunteer Fire Company made its way into the woods on Aug. 18 and rescued the injured skydiver.

The man got tangled in the trees after a mid-air collision with another skydiver, Bert Roby, the assistant fire chief, told McClatchy News.

One of the skydivers ended up on the side of the road, but another drifted into the trees and got tangled up with his parachute, Roby said. He ended up in the back of a farm property in Orange, where someone heard his cries for help.

The call came in at about 4:40 p.m., and fire rescue responded not long after, carving through the woods to get to the man.

Roby said it was “very fortunate” the skydiver wasn’t farther into the woods, because the trucks could only get so far in. Rescuers had to use a truck because none of their ground ladders would extend high enough, the department said in a news release.

Videos show the truck’s ladder rising up to the tree , which Roby estimated was about 60 to 70 feet tall.

“Once in place, a rescuer made contact with the victim, assisted him onto the aerial and cut away his chute before lowering him to the ground,” first responders said.

The man made it to the ground about an hour after the call came in and was transferred to the care of emergency medical personnel, the assistant chief said.

While this type of rescue doesn’t occur very often, Roby said it has happened before, adding there’s a large skydiving center nearby.

“I would call it unusual in the sense that we’re not really in the business of getting parachuters out of trees,” Roby said.

He commended 13 crew members with the all-volunteer company for making the rescue happen.

“We were pretty pleased with the way it went,” Roby said. “We learned a lot from it and we can build from this in the future.”

Orange is about a 90-mile drive southwest from Washington, D.C.

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