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A 16-year-old male fell 80 feet into the ocean and was transported to Maui’s main hospital with critical injuries around noon Saturday in Kailua off the north shore, according to a Maui Fire Department news release today.
The teen suffered possible spinal injuries.
After the call at 12:18 p.m. Saturday, fire crews arrived on scene, and Air 1 quickly located the victim on the rocky shoreline.
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Rescue 10 personnel extracted the victim and flew him to a landing zone mauka of Hana Highway.
He was then loaded into the Maui Medevac air unit and flown to Maui Memorial Medical Center with critical injuries, the release said.
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