LAKEPORT, Calif. – A woman injured in a water skiing accident was flown to a regional trauma center on Sunday.
The woman, whose name was not released, suffered a head injury while out on Clear Lake, according to Capt. Rick Bergem of the Lakeport Fire Protection District.
Bergem said Lakeport Fire personnel had been committed to other calls when the injured woman was reported at about 11 a.m., so a Northshore Fire medic unit from Nice assisted and responded to the scene.
The woman initially had lost consciousness when hitting her head on a ski, which Bergem said is not an uncommon injury in the sport.
By the time firefighters saw her, she was conscious and had been transported to a private residence in the 1900 block of Lakeshore Boulevard, Bergem said.
He said the decision was made to fly the woman out to a regional trauma center on a precaution due to her head injury.
The woman was transported by REACH air ambulance, which Bergem said landed at the old Natural High School property on the lakeshore in the 800 block of N. Main Street.
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