Firefighters rescue motorist

SAGLE — A technical rescue was conducted Wednesday after crashing his vehicle down a steep, brush-strewn embankment on Sagle Road on Wednesday evening.

A passerby heard horn honking and calls for help shortly before 7 p.m., according to Selkirk Fire Rescue & EMS Battalion Chief Jason Cordle.

The vehicle went off a 40-foot embankment, rolled and ended up on its side.

Cordle said the man was extricated from vehicle, although a high-angle rope rescue apparatus had to be set up to get the motorist, a male in his 20s, safely up the embankment.

“Crews did a technical rescue and did a good job,” said Cordle.

An ambulance rendezvoused with a Life Flight Network helicopter at Selkirk Fire’s Algoma station and was flown to Kootenai Health for treatment. Cordle said the man may have injured his back and it was not clear if he was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.

The crash happened in the 2200 block of Sagle Road, near the Fry Creek Road turnoff.