FAIRFIELD, Conn. A workman fractured his right leg Wednesday in a fall from the roof of a Mill Hill Road home.
The 41-year-old worker fell from the third-floor of the Southport home to a second-floor roof, and Fairfield Fire Department crews were called to get him down. He was conscious when firefighters arrived but unable to come down a ladder on his own. Fire crews used a mechanical pulley system and a stokes basket, a stretcher with secured sides, to get the man down from the roof. American Medical Response took the roofer to St. Vincents Hospital in Bridgeport for treatment.
Fire crews did very well at a medical call involving a technically challenging rescue, quickly setting up the necessary equipment to safely remove the patient to the ground, said Incident Commander Stephen Curry, Assistant Chief of the Fairfield Fire Department.
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