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LEBANON, ME - The Lebanon Rescue Department responded to a wooded area off Leone Way for a report of a parachuting accident on Sunday evening, September 20, 2009.

The call was received around 6:40 p.m. It was reported to the 911 center that the patient was in the woods and that the rescue department would need their special 6x6 ATV because of the remote location.

"When rescue crews arrived, they located the female patient conscious and alert in a wooded area off of one of the back-up landing zones that the Skydive uses in case a sky diver gets off course. She was carried to the ambulance on a backboard and then brought to Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester with what appear to be non-life threatening injuries." Assistant Chief Jason Cole stated.

"Fortunately, the patient had a radio on her that she was able to communicate with the Skydive New England Staff and they were able to quickly locate her. If she didn't have the radio, it would have been very difficult because she landed in a densely wooded area well off the roadway and near a field. I am not sure the exact cause of the accident but when they have landed in this area previously, they had stated the wind may have carried her away from the normal landing zone so she tried to land in the back-up area and came short and landed in the woods. The Skydive Staff was on sight and helped us carry her out of the woods to the waiting ambulance and then secured the parachute and her equipment from the woods."

The female patient was 24-years-old from Newbury, Mass.