Rescue as man left hanging from tree by broken leg
Corkman James Spillane was cutting branches up a tree when he was hit by a falling bough breaking his thigh bone and leaving him trapped in agony in the branches.
In Ireland’s Search and Rescue, Dr Jason Van Der Velde, from West Cork Rapid Response, said the casualty was in real danger while hanging from the tree by his injured leg in his garden in Ovens, Co Cork.
