A person called 911 after getting trapped in an Orléans bog near the Ottawa River on Tuesday.
Firefighters picked up the call around 10:45 a.m, a post from Ottawa Fire Services (OFS) reads. The resident was walking along the trails just north of Francois Dupont Park in the city’s east end when they sank into the ground. They told emergency officials they were buried up to the waist in “thick mud,” not able to pull themselves free with anything around.
Due to where the person was in the park and without land markers around, Ottawa fire’s dispatch team used the GPS coordinates from the cell phone to display where the person was on a map. The maps were sent to crews on the ground who had an exact route to the person.
Two City of Ottawa employees, Rene Bilodeau and Marc Brule, who maintain the area met firefighters and took them the fastest way to the person stuck.
Members from the rope rescue team used specialized equipment to free the person from the mud in a rescue that took under 10 minutes.
The individual was brought back to a nearby trail where Ottawa paramedics assessed them.