A woman has been airlifted to a specialist burns unit after being involved in a house fire in Wolverhampton.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called by the fire service to a property off The Parkway, Perton, Wolverhampton at 3.56pm yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 15th April) to reports of a property fire. An ambulance, a paramedic officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity from Cosford with medics on board responded to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Ambulance staff arrived to find the woman out of the house with serious injuries. She received advanced trauma care by the team of medics on scene before being airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham for further emergency care.”
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is an independent healthcare provider. We work in close partnership with NHS Ambulance Services, including West Midlands Ambulance Service and South Western Ambulance Service, to deliver advanced pre-hospital emergency care across the six counties we serve, as well as supporting national responses during major incidents. We are dispatched to cases of the highest severity, where our Critical Care Paramedics and HEMS Doctors – deployed by helicopter or critical care car – work alongside NHS ambulance crews at the scene. Together, we provide specialist interventions, bringing hospital-level emergency medicine directly to incidents in our communities and workplaces when it is needed most.
