CSFD rescues person who said they’d been “set on fire”

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Police and fire crews rescued a person from an icy creek north of Monument Valley Park on Monday, Jan. 22, after the person said they’d been assaulted and set on fire.

According to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD), around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, its agency and the Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) began receiving a 911 call reporting a person laying on ice under a bridge near Beacon Street and West Van Buren Street, just north of Monument Valley Park.

CSPD said emergency crews with CSFD responded, and found a person who said they had been assaulted and set on fire.

CSFD also posted about the rescue, and said a heavy apparatus crew responded to assist with a technical rescue. Crews wore ice suits for safety as they successfully rescued the patient, who was carried up an embankment to an ambulance. CSFD said the person was taken to the hospital with hypothermia and other injuries.

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CSPD said officers will continue to investigate this incident. First responders did not specify how long the person had been lying on the ice.

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