BY BILL BIRD wbird@stmedianetwork.com March 14, 2012 7:42PM

Utah State runner Brittany Fisher, No. 476, runs a cross country race. Photo courtesy~Fisher family

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Updated: March 14, 2012 7:49PM

She slammed into the unforgiving earth from a height of five stories while rappelling down the side of a cliff, some 30 minutes from civilization and a good two hours before the sun would begin its rise in the Utah desert. She sustained a serious spinal cord injury and broke both of her legs.

But her parents, brother and sister are relieved and grateful Naperville Central High School alumnus Brittany Fisher suffered neither brain damage nor paralysis, and is likely to completely recover from her harrowing fall.

We video-chatted, and she was conscious, and had no trouble talking at all, said Braden Fisher, Brittanys older brother, from the driveway of the familys home in the Heritage Knolls area of Napervilles far southeast side.

Its amazing. She had no head injuries of any sort.

The siblings attend Utah State University in Logan, where he is majoring in finance and she in elementary education. Parents Bryan and Kaaren Fisher live here with their youngest child, Laura Fisher, a senior at Naperville Central.

Brittany Fisher was listed late Wednesday in serious condition at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, to which she was flown via rescue helicopter following her fall. A hospital spokeswoman, citing federal privacy laws, declined to discuss her injuries.

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Naperville woman seriously hurt in fall while rappelling in Utah

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