EMERGENCY services rushed to the scene after a person fell from a ladder while carrying out work in the centre of Wellington.

A person is understood to have fallen onto a flat roof of a building in Mantle Street which was around ten-feet from the ground.

Eyewitnesses reported a large emergency service presence and traffic congestion while the incident was dealt with on Saturday, October 5.

A statement for Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said in full: “On Saturday, October 5, we were called to Mantle Street in Wellington at 3.53pm to assist ambulance crews after a person had fallen from a ladder and landed on a flat roof roughly ten feet from the ground.

“Two appliances from Wellington and Taunton fire stations attended and using a scoop stretcher were able to help paramedics bring the casualty in through an open window at the rear of the property and then through the house to the ambulance.”

A person who was driving through town at the time of the incident, but did not want to be named, said: “There was a lot of activity in the street with emergency vehicles on either side of the road, causing traffic to pile up at both ends of Mantle Street.

“The only visible sign that something was going on were the fire fighters and there was an ambulance at the scene, but I understand the incident was contained at the other side of the building.”

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 3pm on Saturday, October 5 to an incident in Wellington. We sent one double-crewed ambulance and an operations officer to the scene and conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Musgrove Park Hospital.”