Monday 24 September
17.10 Four Acres Close, Withywood
Crews from Bedminster (fire appliance) and Speedwell (Hydraulic
Platform - HP), alongside a Station Manager, were mobilised to an
unusual job by Fire Control after a call for help from the
Ambulance Service.
The call was to assist paramedics in removing a 15-year-old from
his bedroom who had suffered injuries following a fall.
It appears a 15 year old boy had fallen from the roof of a three
story building onto a 3ft wall below. Following the fall, and
despite a leg and head injury, the boy managed to walk 100 yards
and up two flights of stairs to his home. On arriving home
the boy collapsed in his bedroom
and his mother called 999.
Paramedics assessing the access to the property (also three storey)
decided that the best way to remove the boy, without causing
further injury, was to call for the help of our Hydraulic Platform
(HP). When firefighters arrived they manoeuvred the HP up to
the boy’s bedroom window, from where the casualty, strapped in a
spinal board, was lifted onto the cage of the HP.
Two firefighters, one from Speedwell and one from Bedminster, in
the cage secured the spinal board and its casualty, onto the front
of the cage. The boy was then carefully taken to the ground,
where paramedics were able to safely remove him into the
ambulance.