While some high school seniors would be a squealing mess upon discovering the victim of a 30-foot fall, Cami Tack of Center Township remained calm and assisted the victim and paramedics before the 32-year-old man's dramatic rescue began.

Cami, who is a senior at Butler High School, said she remembered the information from the few medical classes she has taken as well as the stories of her stepfather, Kurt Brockman, who is an emergency medical technician with East Butler Ambulance Service.

Cami explained she was hiking a challenging section of McConnells Mill State Park, when she saw two men climbing up over a steep hill near a scenic waterfall.

“I watched to see if they got off the rocks OK,” she said. “I saw they made it out, so I kept walking.”

Minutes later she heard a man scream, so she returned to the area, where she saw one man frantically scrambling up the hill.

“Then I looked over and saw his friend unconscious on the ground below,” Cami said.

Without a second's hesitation, she made her way to the man to assess the situation.

“His leg was very clearly broken,” Cami said. “It was folded up around him.”

She said the man had some facial bleeding as well. She noted his injuries in her mind as she climbed upward to call 911 where cell service was available.

After calmly reporting the incident to 911 dispatchers, Cami noticed the victim's hysterical friend heading straight toward the injured man, saying he planned to carry him up the hill.

“I told him not to move him because if he had a spinal injury, that would make it worse,” Cami said. “I told him to wait for the ambulance and I would go talk to him and keep him calm and make sure he was OK.”

The injured man had regained consciousness, so Cami calmly talked to him and asked him questions to assess his cognitive condition and keep him awake.

“He knew he fell and had a head injury,” Cami said. “He knew his leg was broken, but I'm not sure that he knew how severely.”

While Cami was calling 911, the injured man had managed to get his leg out from underneath his body and was holding the broken appendage in his hand.

He asked Cami to stretch his leg out, which is when she told him he had a compound fracture and his hip was likely dislocated.

“I told him it would hurt like hell if I tried to straighten it out for him,” she said.

She said once rescue crews arrived on the rocks above, they yelled down to Cami to get an idea of the patient's basic condition and the best way to access him.

Cami gave her opinion of the man's injuries and mental status to the paramedics and firefighters, who were searching for the best way to get down the steep ravine.

“Originally, they were going to rappel down, but I told them an easier way,” she said.

The paramedics asked Cami to place her backpack under the man's head, which was facing downhill.

Once paramedics reached the man, she headed up to talk to the victim's hiking companion and his father.

“I told them what happened and I said that he would be fine,” Cami said. “His friend was still very upset.”

She said she hikes at McConnells Mill frequently in the summer, and Tuesday evening was her first hike of the season.

“I certainly wasn't expecting it,” Cami said of the incident. “I was just expecting to have a nice, relaxing hike on my day off.”

Connie Swidzinski, Cami's mother, was not surprised at her daughter's maturity as the frightening scene unfolded.

“She's an only child, so I always treated her like an adult, not that we didn't have fun,” Swidzinski said.

In addition to lessons she's gleaned from her stepfather's career as an EMT, Cami has suffered a few concussions in her young life, and dealing with those helped Cami know what to do this time, Swidzinski said.

“She knows what it's like to not know what's going on,” she said.

Swidzinski explained that Cami is still recovering from a concussion she suffered in 2017 in a UTV rollover crash.

“She really did relate to that person and what he was going through at the time,” Swidzinski said. “Cami said that really helped her to keep him calm.”

Swidzinski said while she was slightly unnerved to hear about the dangerous terrain Cami traversed during the incident, she is proud of her daughter.

“I think it's great,” she said. “I'm glad she was there for him.”