Vancouver firefighters rescue man stuck in ravine near train tracks

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — Vancouver firefighters shut down a section of Broadway Sunday so they could perform a rope rescue of a man stuck on a ravine near the train tracks.

Assistant Chief Trevor Connelly says crews were called out to the area near Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station after passersby heard the man’s calls for help around 4:15 p.m.

“We arrived on scene and we sent two rescuers down the embankment over the edge of the overpass by way of rope, where they assessed the patient determined that he had minor injuries, that he needed assistance assistance to be removed from the ravine,” he says.

“So they hooked him up to ropes and they raised him back up to street level where he was transferred to BC Ambulance.”

Connelly says he doesn’t know how the man, who he estimates is in his 50s, ended up in the “precarious” area near the tracks, or what caused the minor injuries.

“He did seem a little bit cold and confused and sort of exposed to the elements, more than anything really,” he says.

“I think he was down in there and maybe he slipped.”