CANAJOHARIE — Firefighters were called to Wintergreen Park on Monday afternoon to rescue an 18-year-old girl injured near the Canajoharie Falls.

Canajoharie Police Chief William Beevers on Tuesday said authorities received a 911 call from a cellphone at 3:30 p.m. reporting that a young woman had fallen into the gorge and sustained a leg injury.

“Her friends got her out of the basin at the bottom and then moved her a couple hundred yards downstream,” Beevers said.

Beevers said the girl, whom he would not identify because she hadn’t been issued a ticket yet, was pulled about 200 feet up a cliff adjacent to the gorge and taken by LifeNet helicopter to Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown.

Beevers said the girl complained of neck, back and pelvic pain.

Beevers said there were nine people in a group, all from Fulton or Montgomery counties.

One was 14 years old and was not ticketed because of age. The others ranged in age from 16 to 18, Beevers said, and were issued tickets charging them with trespassing. They were identified as: Shane Hathaway, Stephen Dick, Lauren Komp, Andrew Goodspeed, Dillon Zumbolo, Cecil Hawkins and Evan Mains, Beevers said.

The Canajoharie, Rural Grove, Fort Plain, Ames and St. Johnsville Fire Departments sent personnel to the scene as did the Canajoharie police, Beevers said.

Officials at the St. Johnsville Fire Department could not be reached for details about the rescue Tuesday.

Photographs taken by Terry Potoczny depict dozens of rescuers at Monday’s scene. Canajoharie firefighters tied a rope to a wheeled gurney and slid it down the gorge to rescuers who secured the victim to it.

Another a half-dozen firefighters pulled the victim up with the rope.

Authorities about five years ago developed a Wintergreen Park emergency response plan to coordinate rescue efforts among a variety of agencies.

The move followed numerous incidents over the years at the Canajoharie Falls, some of them fatal.

The Canajoharie Creek flows through the middle of the gorge and leads to a 40-foot waterfall that people jump into despite danger and “no trespassing” signs and village ordinances making entering the creek in the park a violation.

Little Falls resident Alisia Christine Biamonte was 16 when she died after jumping into the falls in May 2004. Jesse Nabinger, 18, of Fonda, died in a similar manner in 2003. Alexander Lee, 19, died after a June 2001 leap into the falls.

Beevers said the youths ticketed for trespassing are due in Canajoharie Village Court on Aug. 18.