By Sarah White

The Mountaineer

HAYWOOD COUNTY, N.C. — When Jonathan Creek firefighters and Haywood County EMS responded to a medical call at a residence in Cove Creek Monday morning, they were faced with a literal uphill climb.

The home was located at the bottom of a steep slope with no suitable driveway access, so the patient had to be lifted up the embankment by a rope and pulley system. Rainy weather complicated the process, but the first responders’ inventive solution got the patient to the ambulance in just 40 minutes.

| INFOGRAPHIC: Understanding normal and abnormal capnography waveforms

“It wasn’t exactly a rescue,” said Allison Richmond, Haywood Emergency Services public information officer. “It was a matter of getting down to the house, making contact with the patients,

See Full Page