‘He’s lucky to be alive’

nurse, said he had been allowed home from hospital and was looking forward to recovering at his home in Woodhead Road, Holmfirth. He suffered a slight fracture of his pelvis but does not require surgery.

Kirsty said: “He has been a very lucky boy. He has certainly learned his lesson and won’t be doing that kind of thing again.

“Apparently he fell through a fragile part of the roof.”

She said the experience had been “surreal”.

She said: “My partner, Jonathan Boothroyd, and I were at home and we saw the Yorkshire Air Ambulance flying over our home.

“I didn’t have a clue that it was anything to do with us.

“I didn’t find out until around three hours later at 5.30pm when Finn’s father, Gabriel, who’s a firefighter, rang me. An ex-firefighter who had worked with him had found out and phoned him.

“Finn said he shut his eyes as he fell through the air. It seems unbelievable, but when he landed on the floor he got up and walked straight away. I think he must have been in shock.

“He was as white as a sheet. There were people in the area who helped him. He’s been given a reprimand. He shouldn’t have been there but now he is coming home to rest with me. He has been a very lucky boy.”

Charlotte Heaton, an administrator at Premier Hank Dyers, told the Examiner yesterday: “We believe some boys had been climbing on the roof at the back near the pond and one of them fell through the corrugated roof.

“According to my boss, he fell about 15 metres. He must have climbed to get up there. The first I knew was when the first aider came in with him and it was like: ‘Where did he come from?’

“He was very pale and confused. I called an ambulance and he was taken to the first aid room.

“The ambulance came straight away and the air ambulance and he went to hospital in the helicopter. He’s been very lucky.”