A young woman was airlifted to hospital in Calgary Tuesday after an apparent grizzly bear attack near the mountains northwest of the city, according to paramedics.
Immediate details were sketchy but a spokesman with Calgary EMS said the patient was believed to be in her mid-20s and in stable, non-life-threatening condition when she was transported from the MD of Bighorn by STARS Air Ambulance.
STAR-1 (Calgary) has been dispatched for a scene call emergency in the Waiparous Creek, AB area.
Cochrane RCMP said police were responding to a report about a possible bear mauling near the Trappers Hill Campground, northwest of Waiparous Village, but could offer little other information right away.
Waiparous Village is about 70 kilometres northwest of Calgary.
The approximate site of Trapper’s Hill Lodges, where police and paramedics responded to the woman who was injured in an apparent grizzly bear attack. (CBC)
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