Major incident ambulance team attend 'medical emergency' in Mansfield
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One person was taken to hospital yesterday, Sunday, October 18, after East Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the incident at a private address on Chesterfield Road South shortly before 2.30pm.
A spokesman for the ambulance service said: “The caller reported a medical emergency. We sent a Hazardous Area Response Team, a paramedic in a fast response car and a double-crewed ambulance. One patient was taken to Kings Mill Hospital via double-crewed ambulance.”
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Hide AdThe trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team is made up of staff who have been specially recruited and trained to respond to major incidents, which could involve chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) or other hazardous materials or could include train crashes, large-scale motorway accidents, building collapses or significant fires.
The ambulance service said it could not reveal more details about the nature of the incident or the extent of the patient’s injuries in this case.