LYNN — A 31-year-old woman who had been reported missing by her husband was found injured but safe at the bottom of a 40-foot ravine in the Lynn Woods Reservation.
A walker called 911 after spotting her at the base of an embankment 100 yards from the Great Woods Road entrance to the park early Wednesday morning and called 911. A Fire Department rescue team brought her to higher ground where she was placed into an ambulance and brought to Massachusetts General Hospital.
“She was conscious and speaking, but unable to stand or walk,” said Lynn District Fire Chief Steve Archer. “We performed a rescue up the cliff with the use of a harnesses to bring her safely up the steep embankment, and removed her from Lynn Woods using our ATV unit. She taken by Atlantic Ambulance to MGH with non-life-threatening injuries.”
It appeared the woman had been in the ravine for about 24 hours. She told rescuers she wasn’t sure what had happened, Archer said.
A Police Department spokesman said just before the 911 call, the woman’s husband reported his wife had been missing for more than a day.
Police declined to release the patient’s or her husband’s name.
