Teenager suffers ‘critical’ injuries in fall off Webster’s Falls

A teenage boy was rushed to hospital in critical" condition after tumbling about 50 feet off Webster's Falls on Friday evening.

The Hamilton Fire Department was dispatched to the Spencer Gorge Conservation Area just after 5 p.m. for a rope rescue," said assistant deputy fire chief Steve Welton.

Seven trucks were initially sent to the scene in the area of Highway 8 and Webster's Falls Road, but several others were dispatched soon after.

Welton said the patient, believed to be in his late teens, was brought back to the top of the waterfall and immediately sent to hospital.

Photos from the rescue showed two firefighters guiding a stretcher up the side of a steep, somewhat eroded rock wall.

Dave Thompson, paramedics superintendent, told The Spectator that medics transported the teen to a local trauma centre in critical condition."

Thompson said the teenager was suffering multisystem trauma."

Fallon Hewitt is a Hamilton-based reporter at The Spectator. Reach her via email: fhewitt@thespec.com