Specialist paramedics and other emergency workers came to the rescue of a person on a boat on Ripon Canal last night.
Firefighters from Ripon were summoned to Boroughbridge Road, which runs alongside the canal basin, at 12.23am.
They were responding to a request from paramedics to help move a patient from a boat, according to North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Its incident report said:
“Crews assisted to move the casualty into a seated position to allow paramedics to carry out an assessment.”
The report added firefighters then liaised with paramedics and staff from Yorkshire Ambulance Service’s hazardous area response team, which provides emergency treatment in precarious rescue operations.
The report said:
“Crews then assisted the casualty from the boat to the pontoon and left them in the care of ambulance crews.”
No further details have been released.
The canal held an open day yesterday to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
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Specialist paramedics rescue woman who fell in Harrogate woods
Specialist paramedics rescued a woman who had fallen and injured herself in a Harrogate woodland.
Two Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) and a regular ambulance team attended reports of a fall at 11am just off Oak Beck Road, close to the retail park.
On arrival the paramedics secured the area and managed to get the patient out of the woods and into the ambulance.
The paramedics then took her to Harrogate District Hospital for treatment. It is unclear at this time what level of injuries the woman sustained.
A spokesperson for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service said:
“We received an emergency call at 11.01am this morning to reports of a female who had fallen in the woods behind the retail park on Oak Beck Road in Harrogate.
“We dispatched an ambulance and the Hazardous Area Response Team to the scene and one patient was conveyed to Harrogate Hospital.”
The HART teams provide care to people in a hazardous environment that would otherwise be beyond the reach of NHS care.
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