A 27-year-old and her father needed to call 911 after she was stuck waist-deep in mud and sinking deeper in Ottawa’s west end.
The incident happened at Rebecca Pond in Kanata around 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. The woman’s dad told firefighters that she was fishing from a plastic culvert when she lost her balance and fell into the pond.
“She became stuck waist-deep in the mud and sank deeper each time she attempted to move,” he told crews.
Using the location data from the cellphone, the team was able to pinpoint the resident’s location within the trail. When officials arrived the woman’s father met them at the entrance of the area near Old Second Line and Klondike roads.
Walking 400 metres, crews made it to the pond with the trapped woman. They saw her left leg was trapped in the mud, held “tightly” by the suction up to her hip.
Fire crews used a pike pole, a strong, long stick with a handle, to stabilize the 27-year-old while they dug around her leg.
By 3:16 p.m., she was lifted out of the mud and to the boardwalk. The woman was able to walk out of the trail with crews where she rinsed off using one of the hoses off the truck.
Paramedics confirmed she did not sustain any injuries.
Crews used GPS data from the resident’s cellphone to pinpoint the location of a trapped woman. (OFS)
This is not the first time Ottawa firefighters were called to help someone out of thick mud in the city.
Last summer, a person called 911 after they became trapped in an Orléans bog near the Ottawa River.
The resident was walking along the trails just north of Francois Dupont Park in the city’s east end when they sank into the ground. They told emergency officials they were buried up to the waist in “thick mud,” not able to pull themselves free with anything around.
Due to where the person was in the park and without land markers around, Ottawa fire’s dispatch team used the GPS coordinates from the cell phone to display where the person was on a map.
The maps were sent to crews on the ground who had an exact route to the person.
Members from the rope rescue team used specialized equipment to free the person from the mud in a rescue that took under 10 minutes.
The individual was brought back to a nearby trail where Ottawa paramedics assessed them.
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