Firefighters help injured woman off RONA roof in Nepean
Posted Jan 7, 2022 08:55:00 PM.
A woman in her 20s is safely off the roof of a RONA store on West Hunt Club Road in Nepean after injuring her knee, thanks to Ottawa firefighters.
Ottawa Fire Services received a 911 call at 9:25 a.m., Friday, January 7, reporting that a worker on the roof of a commercial building between Merivale Road and Woodroffe Avenue had been injured and was unable to get down to ground level.
Fire crews arrived within minutes, laddered the building and brought a stokes basket up to the roof area.
A splint was applied to the woman's leg until the Ottawa Paramedic Service arrived and took over patient care on the roof at 10:03 a.m. She was then loaded into the stokes basket 15 minutes later.
The OFS says its original plan was to bring the patient down the rungs of an aerial ladder in the stokes basket, but it was decided, due the weather conditions, specifically high winds, that would not be a safe option.
An aerial ladder from Station 22 with a platform on it was brought to the scene which allows firefighters to attach the stokes basket to the platform. Firefighters safely brought the patient down using this technique at 10:29 a.m.
This morning, @OttFire Firefighters used the combination of a stokes basket and an aerial ladder to safely bring down an injured patient off of the roof of a commercial building. #OttNews pic.twitter.com/asMmUudSV6
— Ottawa Fire Services (@OttFire) January 7, 2022
Ottawa paramedics say the woman was treated at a local emergency department.
