WATCH: Lifeboat rescues man after cliff fall
EMERGENCY services prepared for a possible rope rescue at Icart yesterday, but the inshore lifeboat was able to successfully rescue the casualty.
At 3.52pm, a member of the public called the Joint Emergency Services Control Centre to report that their friend - a 19-year-old male - had fallen down the cliffs at Icart Point while walking in the area.
Half an hour later, the St Peter Port relief all weather lifeboat, the Daniel L Gibson, and the inshore lifeboat, the Elizabeth & Margaret Milligan, were launched and headed to the scene of the incident to assess the casualty's condition and to determine whether a recovery by sea could be carried out.
Officers from the police, emergency ambulance service, Fire Service Cliff Rescue and Coastguard attended were stationed at Icart Point to prepare for a possible rope rescue if required.
However, this was not needed as the crew of the inshore lifeboat had managed to get to the casualty and recover him safely to the lifeboat for onward transport back to St Peter Port harbour and the awaiting ambulance service there.
Both lifeboats returned to station just before 6pm.
A spokesperson for St John confirmed that the patient, who was near the base of the cliff, was rescued by the inshore lifeboat crew using a basket stretcher before being taken to the harbour where they were met by an ambulance and transported to the hospital's Emergency Department.
This was one of a number of incidents for the Emergency Ambulance Service on Tuesday.
'Around the time of this incident, crews responded to a total of seven calls in a two hour period, including traumatic injuries and other medical emergencies,' the spokesperson said.
