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July 9, 2007

Woman critical after fall from Jamestown cliff / Photo

Journal photo / Kathy Borchers
This is the area -- nicknamed "The Lion's Head" -- where the woman fell.

A 74-year-old North Kingstown woman was in critical condition this morning after she fell from a cliff into a 25-foot-deep ravine near Beavertail Lighthouse in Jamestown yesterday afternoon.

Anne Marie Miano suffered trauma after falling, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which helped rescue the woman at the noontime request of the Jamestown Fire Department. The emergency crew that first arrived could reach Miano and tend to her, but they had no safe way to get her out of the ravine, Coast Guard Petty Officer Luke Pinneo said this morning.

They needed a helicopter, and the Coast Guard sent a HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter out of Air Station Cape Cod, Pinneo said. Rescue crews moved Miano onto a basket lowered by the helicopter, Pinneo said. Miano was taken into the helicopter at 1 p.m. and flown to Rhode Island Hospital, where a spokeswoman this morning said she was in critical condition.

"These shore cliffs are very dangerous," Lt. J.G. Ryan Tickell, the helicopter pilot, said in a statement. "Unfortunate falls like this are common. The thing we would have folks remember is to use caution."

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