Emergency crews responding to a report of a “patient with a laceration” in downtown Tacoma ended up making a rooftop rescue late Friday.
It all started about 11:30 p.m., when emergency dispatchers received a call for help to the 700 block of Commerce Street. Tacoma firefighters arrived a short time later, learning that a woman had fallen about two stories onto a second-story roof of a neighboring building, said Tacoma Fire Battalion Chief Jim Zuluga.
After treating the patient for injuries, firefighters employed an aerial ladder rescue technique, Zuluga said.
“Our technical rescue team working with our on-scene companies devised a plan to slide the patient down the aerial ladder to the medic unit on the street below,” he said.
The patient was lowered to the ground in less than six minutes and taken to the hospital, Zuluga added.
The woman’s name and condition were not available.
Lewis Kamb lewis.kamb@thenewstribune.com
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