Elderly Man Falls from Allenbrook Cliff

Jun 20, 2009 - 15:22
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Roswell Fire Department responded to a report of an injury inside the Chattahoochee National Forest Saturday.

According to Roswell Fire's Public Information Officer Paul Picirilly, an elderly man fell 20 feet from the side of a climbing trail at Allenbrook, the old Southe mansion which is headquarters of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.

Picirilly said it took crews an hour to get to the man. They said the man had non-life threatening injuries and was transported to North Fulton Hospital.

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