Part of a group holding a family gathering at the Toledo Airport prepare to take their turn at skydiving minutes after another parachutist is taken away by ambulance following a hard landing.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 25-year-old skydiver was hospitalized this afternoon after he had what was described as a hard landing in Toledo.
Lewis County Fire District 2 and paramedics were called about 4:30 p.m. to the Toledo Airport off Jackson Highway north of town.
Heather Whittaker of Skydive Toledo was among a number of professionals there – serving a group holding a family reunion – and taking some of them up in the air to parachute.
Five of them hopped in a truck and headed to the spot where the man came down, several hundred yards away between the runway and the taxi way.
“He had a hard landing,” Whittaker said.
The five are part of a group that train for just such emergencies, according to Whittaker.
The injured man, whose name was not released, was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia. The nature of his injuries wasn’t available.
Whittaker said he wasn’t one of the clients Skydive Toledo was entertaining today. They didn’t see what happened, and she preferred they didn’t find out, she said, as a foursome arrived to the runway to go up in a small plane.
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