Police, firefighters, SES and ambulance crews rescue woman at Torquay after she gets stuck in rocks near Fishermans Beach and Cosy Corner

The woman, who was clearly in pain, was freed from the rocks in fading light with the tide coming in and carried hundreds of meters by rescue crews.

An emergency crew carries the injured woman along the beach at Torquay. Picture: Shaun Viljoen

Emergency services rushed to a Torquay beach late on Sunday after a woman became trapped in rocks on the shoreline.

Reports from the scene suggested the woman had fallen and become stuck in a rocky stretch between Fishermans Beach and the town’s front beach about 5pm.

Police, fire crews, ambulances and the State Emergency Service (SES) all responded, with multiple vehicles parked on The Esplanade in front of the town’s dining precinct.

Emergency crews worked to free the woman, who become stuck in rocks at Torquay between Cosy Corner and Fishermans Beach. Picture: Shaun Viljoen

In fading light and with an incoming tide, the SES worked to free the woman, who was clearly in some pain.

The woman’s stretcher was placed on a wheeled rescue cart. Picture: Shaun Viljoen

Several SES workers were carrying specialists tools for digging and cutting.

The woman was transferred onto a stretcher and a special single-wheeled cart that carried her along the beach for several hundred meters and then up a steep flight of stairs.

She was then transferred to an ambulance in front of a crowd of onlookers before being taken to hospital.

An ambulance spokesman said the woman, in her twenties, was taken to Geelong hospital in a stable condition with lower-body injuries.

The injured woman was taken by ambulance to hospital. Picture: Shaun Viljoen

The incident unfolded just down the beach from where a man died two weeks ago.

Local man Vince Verecondi died on Saturday, May 4 after being pulled unresponsive from the water.

Paramedics and members of the public performed CPR for an extended period as a large group of beachgoers watched on but Mr Verecondi could not be saved.

The Torquay local was a popular athlete. One of his swimming groups – the Wednesday Waders – held an emotional in-water remembrance for him at the beach a week after his death.

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