By Oliver Winn
Upper Yarra SES helped Ambulance Victoria retrieve a patient from Wesburn on 8 March.
The patient crashed while mountain biking on track off Hey Hey My My requiring rescue crews to hike through dense bush to locate them.
“Paramedics were called to an incident in Wesburn around 4:25pm on 8 March 2025,” an Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said.
“A man in his 60s with an upper body injury was transported by road ambulance to Maroondah Hospital in a stable condition.”
According to Upper Yarra SES’s Facebook post, the team had difficulties locating the patient due to them riding on an unofficial track.
The whole process of locating the patient, performing a medical assessment and extricating them took three hours due to concerns over a potential spinal injury.
Rescue crews also had to utilise latitude and longitude coordinates to locate the patient.
