ACT Ambulance Service and ACT Fire & Rescue on scene at Mt Stromlo.
ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics are currently treating a male patient for a fractured leg who is approximately 400metres from a marked trail.
Update to follow.
1:21pm Monday 20 August 2012
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ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics reached the male mountain bike rider on the Skyline Mountain Bike trail.
ACT Fire & Rescue will use two specialist off-road four-wheel-drive vehicles to access the area in assisting intensive care paramedics to move the patient from Mt Stromlo to The Canberra Hospital.
Time of Emergency Triple Zero (000) call 12.00pm.
1:53pm Monday 20 August 2012
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Crews are conveying the patient by foot along a 400metre track to an awaiting ambulance to be transported to The Canberra Hospital.
2:14pm Monday 20 August 2012
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Crews are about to depart the scene.
ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics will shortly transport the 35-year-old male patient to The Canberra Hospital in a stable condition.
A fellow rider raised the alarm by calling Emergency Triple Zero (000).
2:42pm Monday 20 August 2012
[Courtesy ESA]