A 20-year-old man had to be rescued this Wednesday after suffering a paragliding accident in the municipality of Adeje, in the south of Tenerife, as reported by the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (Cecoes) 1-1-2.
The event occurred minutes before 1:00 p.m., when the 1-1-2 operating room received an alert informing that a paraglider had suffered a fall and needed medical assistance and to be rescued after having fallen in a place of difficult access in Boca del Paso.
Rescuers from the GES helicopter located the area of the incident, proceeded to rescue the paraglider and evacuated him to the Adeje Volunteer Fire Department helipad.
Once on land, the SUC personnel assisted the athlete and transferred him to a hospital after presenting a moderate upper extremity trauma. For their part, the rural agents took care to prevent the exit of other paragliders in the rescue area.
