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Basketball player with head injury at Pembroke HS requiring Mercy Flight to hospital

By Billie Owens

A youth basketball player with a head injury is reported in the gymnasium at Pembroke High School. He was unconscious, but is now alert. He is collared and boarded. Mercy Flight is on ground standby for now. Mercy medics are on scene. Pembroke and Indian Falls fire departments are called and will be establishing a landing zone.

UPDATE 6:46 p.m.: Mercy Flight is headed to the scene with a 5-minute ETA.

UPDATE 6:51 p.m.: The head-injury victim is a 13-year-old male. Another victim, a person with a knee injury who collided with the other patient, may need ambulance transport. Mercy Flight is to land on the grass at the northwest corner of school property.

UPDATE 6:54 p.m.: The knee-injury patient will have his leg splinted and be transported to a hospital via private vehicle.

Ed Hartgrove

Billie. Your  6:54 p.m update said, "The knee-injury patient will have his leg splintered and be transported ..."

Did you mean "splinted" (and not splintered)?

Jul 12, 2016, 9:47pm Permalink

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