A woman suffered significant injuries after falling as many as 100 feet from a cliff in North Little Rock's Emerald Park on Thursday night, authorities said.
Responders were called about 7 p.m. and found the woman on a landing about 100 feet off the ground near the entry to the quarry from the Arkansas River Trail, a spokesman for the city's fire department said.
Police later identified her as Jennifer Bartholmey, 26.
The distance she fell was estimated as 80 to 100 feet.
According to a North Little Rock police report, a man on the pedestrian trail had seen Bartholmey lying in the brush above him. She wasn't moving or responding to him yelling, so he called authorities, the report states.
Bartholmey was in stable condition at the scene and appeared to be moving after responders arrived. Police said she had substantial injury to her face and stomach due to the fall in addition to possibly having a left femur fracture, a broken right arm and injury to her lower back. An official from the fire department said she might also have a jaw fracture and head trauma.
About 7:55 p.m., a ladder carrying a spotlight was hoisted up from the trail by a fire truck toward the cliff. The woman was carried down the cliff at dusk by crews using flashlights and placed into an ambulance about 8:25 p.m.
Bartholmey was not responsive during treatment at UAMS Medical Center, the department said. An update on her condition was not available Friday afternoon.
Arkansas Online reporter Brandon Riddle contributed to this story.
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