Ambulance staff locked themselves in property during late-night attack

AMBULANCE CHIEFS have spoken out after two staff had to lock themselves in a property after they were threatened and their ambulance damaged while treating a patient in Hull.

One of the clinicians said “it was my most frightening shift at work” and were relieved when police arrived.

A spokesman for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service confirmed that the incident had taken place in the early hours of Friday last week at an address in Hull.

Laura Major, an emergency medical technician at Hull East hospital, who was one of the staff involved, tweeted: “(Friday) night was my most frightening shift at work.

“Our vehicle was attacked whilst we locked ourselves inside a property. The house was also attacked whilst we waited.

“I have never been so relieved to see the police.

“We do not come to work to be treated like this.”

A Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust spokesman added: “Ambulance service staff do a difficult job, often in challenging circumstances, and physical and verbal abuse against any member of NHS staff is completely unacceptable.”

Fellow members of the emergency services sent support.

West Midlands Ambulance Service posted yesterday on the social media platform, Twitter: “When will the public realise that ambulance staff are always there to help, whatever the problem?”

Humberside Police said a man had been arrested and freed pending further inquiries.