THURROCK residents are being urged to support the ambulance service as it faces significant pressure with challenging weather and a surge in calls over particularly busy weekend. With a significant increase in demand across Thurrock, the East of England Ambulance Service Trust is appealing to those considering calling 999 for an ambulance to only do so if it’s really necessary.
At about 8.47am, a 999 call came in from Tilbury Docks that the man had been briefly trapped between a container and the side of the ship he was onboard of.
Volunteers take it in turn to be ‘on call’ and carry basic first aid equipment and a simple-to-use automated external defibrillator (AED). The emergency operations centre sends them to the scene of category A (immediately life threatening) 999 calls. First Responders are dispatched at the same time as the ambulance crew, but often arrive beforehand because they are based so locally. The responder then provides care until the ambulance arrives, usually only a few minutes later.
THE POLICE, emergency services, Thurrock Council and the public were highly praised after the Essex Air Ambulance landed in the middle of the festival in order to airlift a ten-year-old child who had suspected spinal injuries after falling from a climbing frame.
The tot was walking along Darenth Lane, in South Ockendon, when she collided with a Vauxhall Astra at about 5pm on Wednesday.
Ambulance crews were called at 8.30 am after reports that a man in his sixties had collapsed with a cardiac arrest.
Emergency services at scene after vehicle careers into traffic management worker on A13.
Corringham Lollipop lady in incident outside fire station.
Coastguard fly in to rescue a man from jetty.
Quarter of all attacks occur in the Essex area.
