Air crew lands in field on 999 call

AN air ambulance touched down on a primary school’s playing field on Tuesday to attend an emergency.

The ambulance service was called to a home in Blaby at about 9.10am after a man suffered a heart attack.

The air ambulance attended, along with two road vehicles.

The helicopter touched down in the playing field at Blaby Stokes Primary School, in Queen’s Road in the village.

An air ambulance spokesman said: “A team from Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance was tasked at 9.10am and was on scene at 9.19am.

“They attended a patient in cardiac arrest after landing in a school playing field. A male was treated and taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary.”

It is the second time in two weeks the air ambulance had used the school field to land during an emergency.

On August 29, a helicopter crew was dispatched after a man had a heart attack in the village.

In a message sent to parents after the incident, the acting deputy head teacher, Rachel O’Hara, said: “The air ambulance has again used our field to make an emergency landing.

“None of the children was out on the field where the helicopter landed.”

There was another emergency in Blaby attended by the air ambulance on Monday morning, with the aircraft landing at Thistly Meadow Primary School’s playing field off Hospital Lane. An ambulance service spokesman said: “We received a call at 7.43am to a medical emergency in a private address in Blaby.”