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Coastguard help injured person on Douglas Head

Mon, 02 Jan 2017


Douglas Coastguard were needed to help an injured person on Douglas Head.

The team received the call shortly before 10pm on Friday as the person was unable to get themselves to safety.

The crews used their holdfast equipment to climb down to the trapped casualty around 30 metres below the Camera Obscurer before transferring them to a waiting ambulance.

Officers were able to return to the Coastguard station by 11.15pm.


 

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