Air Ambulance called in to support medical emergency

The Air Ambulance was called by the North East Ambulance Service yesterday afternoon to support a medical emergency at Blackhall Colliery.

An NEAS spokesperson said, "We received a call at 2.46pm on Friday 16 October to a person unwell at a private address in Blackhall Colliery, Hartlepool. We dispatched the air ambulance, two emergency ambulance crews, a rapid response paramedic and a community first responder. An elderly patient was pre alerted to James Cook hospital for further treatment by air."