Firefighters rescue man trapped on roof in Clacton
The man had injured his ankle
A man has been rescued by firefighters after getting trapped on a roof in Clacton.
The man, in his forties, fell from a ladder onto a first storey flat roof in Pier Avenue yesterday morning ( 13 January) and injured his ankle.
Paramedics gave him pain relief but could not get him down.
Station manager Ryan Ainger said:
"We worked closely with the ambulance service and Hazardous Area Response Team to make sure we got the casualty down as safely as possible.
"One option was to use our Urban Search and Rescue team, which had set up a rope rescue mechanism to lower him 10 to 15ft to safety.
"However, working with medics, crews were able to move him onto a stretcher, strap it to aerial ladder platform and lower him to the ground."
The casualty was left in the care of the ambulance service.