A 13-year-old boy fell off a cliff and broke his leg during a camping expedition on Chewonki Neck Monday night, June 28.
According to Greg Shute, Chewonki’s director of Wilderness Programming, the boy, a camper at Camp Chewonki for Boys, was transported by ambulance to Portland’s Maine Medical Center.
Camp counselors responded immediately. Staff in the wilderness program, Shute said, take an “eight day wilderness first responder back country course” to prepare for such situations. Chewonki also sent a registered nurse and EMT to the site before the arrival of first responders from Wiscasset “about a half an hour” after the fall, Shute said.
The boy was not hiking, as originally reported by a statewide news agency, but instead fell while participating in “an overnight campout on our property,” Shute said.
“He fell at one of the campsites and he broke his leg,” Shute said.
Citing Chewonki policy, Shute declined to release the boy’s name, place of residence or any information about his condition or treatment.
