A worker doing repairs to the Incline Railway following the December fire at the local landmark/attraction suffered a fall Wednesday afternoon, requiring a complicated rescue by the Chattanooga Fire Department. Just after 1:30 PM on 2/26/25, Red Shift companies responded to different points on the incline and learned that the worker was injured in the fall. Chattanooga firefighters, including rope technicians, lifted the patient vertically 60 feet using a rope system. Then they had to get him over the tracks and into a cart on a pulley system and get him up the incline where paramedics were waiting. By 4:20 PM, the fall victim had been rescued and he was transported to the hospital by Hamilton County EMS for further evaluation and treatment of his injuries. Squad 20, Squad 1, Squad 19, Engine 14, Battalion 1, Special Operations, CFD Drone Unit, CPD and HCEMS were on the scene. First responders were assisted by incline personnel.
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