Emergency incident as injured woman airlifted to hospital from Benarty Hill in Fife

Ochils Mountain Rescue Team, coastguard, fire and ambulance crews were dispatched to the hill on Sunday afternoon after the alarm was raised.

While an air unit from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency transported the walker to hospital where her current condition is unknown.

Posting on Facebook, Ochils Mountain Rescue Team said: “The team was called out earlier this evening by Police Scotland to assist the Scottish Ambulance Service in evacuating a casualty that had taken a fall in the Benarty area of Fife.

“As team members were arriving on scene the casualty was lifted by Maritime and Coastguard Agency helicopter Rescue 199 from Prestwick and flown to hospital.”

A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service added: “We dispatched one ambulance, our special operations team and an air ambulance to the scene. We airlifted one female patient in their 30s to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.”

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