
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, May 31, 1993                   TAG: 9305310078
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
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TEEN RESCUED AFTER FALL OFF LEDGE

Roanoke County fire and rescue workers used ropes and a gurney to rescue a 13-year-old boy from a cliff ledge where he had fallen Sunday.

The youth, whose name was not available, was apparently more shaken than seriously injured after a 30-foot fall.

He was treated and released from a Roanoke Valley hospital, according to Lt. T.W. Haynes of the Roanoke County Police Department.

Haynes said it took rescue workers about an hour to remove the teen-ager from the rock wall of a quarry off Woodhaven Road Northwest.

The 13-year-old and three teen-age friends had gone to the quarry on property of Adams Construction Co. about 11:45 a.m. Sunday, Haynes said.

All four youths climbed down a steep drop-off to a rock ledge overlooking the quarry, then retraced their route back up the cliff.

While the first three made it back to the top, the 13-year-old slipped and fell back onto the ledge. He stayed there until rescue workers lowered the gurney to him on ropes and pulled him up to safety.

by CNB