Emergency services co-ordinate rescue at Tallebudgera Valley

A teenager has been seriously injured after falling 20m into a Gold Coast creek, with efforts by emergency services to get him out complicated by “difficult terrain”. LATEST

Emergency services are co-ordinating a rescue operation after a man fell 20m into a creek on Tallebudgera Creek Rd at Tallebudgera Valley. Picture: Kevin Farmer

A teenager is being treated for “serious” back injuries after falling 20m into a creek on the Southern Gold Coast on Sunday.

Paramedics were called to the incident on Tallebudgera Creek Rd at Tallebudgera Valley at 12.30pm on Sunday afternoon, after reports a man had fallen 20m into a creek.

The man was at the Cream Track at Tallebudgera Valley, reportedly near a waterfall.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the main sustained serious back injuries in the fall, but that they were non life-threatening.

The rescue took several hours, with three crews having to work to safely extricate the man through the difficult terrain.

The teenager was transported to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.

Originally published as Emergency services co-ordinate rescue at Tallebudgera Valley