MASHPEE BOAT RESCUE: Children rescued from Lowell Holly Reservation taken to Falmouth Hospital… [VIDEO]
MASHPEE – At about 6:20PM, Wednesday evening, Mashpee Fire Department responded to the Lowell Holly Reservation with their rescue boat to help two juveniles who were unable to make it out of the woods on their own.
Mashpee and Sandwich Police, along with firefighters from Mashpee, including some mutual aid firefighters from surrounding towns, learned of a group of kids who were having trouble making it out of the Lowell Holly Reservation on their own.
The Lowell Holly Reservation is connected to the Mashpee mainland by a narrow strip of land which stretches out to a larger area of wooded trails surrounded by a network of Mashpee ponds and coves…
Firefighters learned of the two children in need of help from a couple of other children who they found safe and sound while it was still daylight.
According to Captain Peltier of the Mashpee Fire Department, the two children they were searching for were cold and wet, and unable to walk out of the woods on their own. It was dark when police officers finally located the children. Because of their location, it was quicker and easier to take the juveniles out of the wooded area by boat.
The two children were placed in an ambulance and transported to Falmouth Hospital. One of the juveniles was said to be in “priority three” condition while being transported. The other juvenile was said to be in “priority two” condition, which is more serious.
A helicopter was overhead, but it remains uncertain if it was a coast guard helicopter or part of the state police airwing. According to radio transmissions, rescue command was considering calling a state police helicopter because there were still two other juveniles still out in the darkness of the reservation after the other two had just been rescued by boat.
HN spoke with a source who mentioned the juveniles were probably out on the reservation doing things they shouldn’t have been doing and that some of the group were possibly disoriented because of the underage consumption of alcohol.
The two remaining lost children were eventually found and checked out by medics in the back of an ambulance at an address along the shore of one of the ponds. The last of the lost juveniles did not need to be transported to the hospital.
Rescue crews were spread out at various boat ramps and access points. The following video highlights one of the scenes shortly after two of the juveniles had been located. No further information was available about the ages of the juveniles. (However HN observed one of the group, who appeared to be in his early to mid teens). No other details were available regarding the condition of the two juveniles taken to Falmouth Hospital. According to radio transmissions the remaining juveniles were safely reunited with their parents…
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1/27/2016
Robert Bastille,
