Injured Tuber Rescued, Flown to Hartford Hospital
August 14, 2016 

By John Fitts

A man who had been tubing in the Farmington River on Sunday evening was flown to Hartford Hospital via Life Star.

Canton received the call at 4:59 p.m. to assist New Hartford with a water rescue, said Wayne Goeben, assistant chief of the town of Canton Volunteer Fire and EMS Department.

The victim was located in Nepaug State Forest.

“New Hartford fire, New Hartford EMS, Canton Fire, Canton EMS and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection went into the forest, located the patient, provided medical attention, extricated the patent up an embankment approximately 50 feet using a rope belay system and then transported the patient out and met Life Star at Memorial Field in Canton,” Goeben said.

The patient was flown to Hartford Hospital. He appeared conscious when being transferred to the chopper but officials did not provide an exact status. According to emergency radio reports the man suffered a head injury.