Fire service was called to help ambulance
LOUTH County Council Fire and Rescue Service were called to assist an ambulance in Dundalk last week after a patient needing treatment was unable to be removed in the conventional way from a house at Market Street.
The incident happened on Thursday afternoon and involved a hydraulic platform from Drogheda being sent to the Town Hall yard, behind the houses in Market Street, in order for a member of the Fire Service to help the patient out of the house.
According to a witness: ‘ The National Ambulance Service asked the Fire Service for their help to remove a person from a house in Market Street and the local Dundalk unit arrived
‘ They asked their control, the Eastern Regional Control Centre (ERCC) in Dublin, to mobilise the Multistar platform from Drogheda station.
‘ The platform was setup in the entrance of the Louth County Council’s yard to have space to move the 30 meter hydraulic arm with the cage setup and a fire fighter with a stretcher support fitted moved to the window.
‘Another person in the house got the person ready to be moved, via the upstairs window, which was removed. The patient was lowered and taken to hospital for treatment’. The fire service also assisted a person at a supermarket in Dundalk on Sunday after callers were told it would be 15 minutes before a vehicle arrived.