27 May 2011
To be attributed to a London Ambulance
Service spokesperson:
We were called just after 11.20am today (27
May) to reports of a person taken unwell on scaffolding at the
Union Chapel, Compton Avenue, N1.
We sent a motorcycle paramedic, an ambulance
crew and our specialist hazardous area response team (HART). The
patient, reported to be a 50 year old man, was unconscious at the
top of the scaffolding. Our crews climbed ladders and scaffolding
to reach him at the top of the spire which is 170 feet tall.
They helped move him to a fire brigade
platform where they treated him before he was lowered to the
ground. He was taken to University College Hospital as a
priority.
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