8-year-old girl falls from zip line at Camp Letts in Edgewater: officials
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD — An 8-year-old girl fell from a zip line at Camp Letts in Edgewater this weekend, the Anne Arundel County Fire Department told Patch on Monday.
Firefighters said the injured girl was flown to hospital.
Emergency crews said they were called to the 4000 block of Camp Letts Road in Edgewater at 2:37 p.m. Saturday.
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An emergency caller reported that the girl had fallen about 4.5 to 6 meters from the zip line.
The Maryland State Police Aviation Command’s Trooper 2 rescue helicopter flew the victim to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, officials said.
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Camp Letts is operated by the YMCA.
A third-party contractor set up the zip line for a private event hosted by an outside organization at Camp Letts, a YMCA spokesperson told WJZ.
“The YMCA of Metropolitan Washington has been notified that a participant at a private event hosted by an outside organization on the property of the YMCA Camp Letts Retreat Center was injured,” the spokesperson said in a statement to WJZ. “It has been reported to the YMCA that a youth guest fell while using a zip line provided by an outside vendor specifically for the event. The Y is praying for the participant’s full recovery.”
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