JIM POND TOWNSHIP — A snowmobiler was injured Saturday afternoon when his sled left the Antler Hill Trail, went down a small embankment into a gully about four miles from King of Bartlett Road off Route 27.

The man, a senior citizen who lives in Biddeford and has a camp in Eustis, had a serious knee injury but not life threatening, Eustis Fire-Rescue Assistant Chief Sidney Shane said Monday. He declined to name the accident victim.

Firefighters drove in as far as they could in their pickup trucks and had snowmobilers, including firefighters, Rangeley paramedics and members of the Arnold Trail Snowmobile Club, meet them with a rescue sled, he said. Shane said when they arrived, a nurse who had also been snowmobiling, had the patient wrapped in a solar blanket to keep him warm.

"We stabilized him, put him on a backboard and (put a neck collar on him) and loaded him on to the rescue sled" and took him out to a waiting NorthStar Emergency Medical Services ambulance," Shane said. The man was taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, he said.

In addition to about 10 firefighters and club members, about eight other snowmobilers had stopped to assisted with the rescue, he said.

"We appreciated all the assistance," Shane said.

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