Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews have saved a paraglider who has crashed into a tree at Laurieton on the state's mid-north coast.
The man's flight came to grief around 12.45 pm yesterday when his chute careered into a canopy of trees in thick scrub, around 100 meters from Lord Street.
FRNSW crews
FRNSW crews from Laurieton, assisted by Police and Ambulance paramedics, were alerted and used a fire trail to access the bushland. They located the uninjured man, suspended from a branch of a large gum tree, up to 30 meters off the ground.
The first responders hatched a recovery plan, and a firefighter scaled the tree to rig up a vertical rescue harness. The pair was successfully lowered to safety, and the paraglider was assessed by paramedics after his brush with danger.
