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Toddler injured after falling from hotel window in Blackpool | Toddler injured after falling from hotel window in Blackpool |
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A toddler has sustained multiple fractures after falling from the second floor of a hotel in Blackpool. | A toddler has sustained multiple fractures after falling from the second floor of a hotel in Blackpool. |
Emergency services were called to the Rooms Inn hotel, in the town centre, shortly before 9am on Tuesday to reports of a baby having fallen from a window. | Emergency services were called to the Rooms Inn hotel, in the town centre, shortly before 9am on Tuesday to reports of a baby having fallen from a window. |
Lancashire police said the 18-month-old girl had been airlifted to Alder Hey children’s hospital in Merseyside. The force said the toddler was in a serious condition and inquiries were under way. No arrests have been made. | |
Witnesses told the Blackpool Gazette the girl was feared to have sustained a fractured skull and chest injuries. | Witnesses told the Blackpool Gazette the girl was feared to have sustained a fractured skull and chest injuries. |
The owner of the Rooms Inn hotel said the injured girl was part of a family of four who were staying at the 32-room venue. | |
Several police vehicles, including a crime scene investigation van, were parked outside the hotel shortly after the incident. | Several police vehicles, including a crime scene investigation van, were parked outside the hotel shortly after the incident. |
Wendy and Kevin Twiss, who run a neighbouring hotel, raised the alarm after hearing the girl fall into a yard at the back of the building and looked out to see her in distress. | |
Kevin Twiss told the BBC: “We just said to everyone: ‘We need to get downstairs. We need to go and help this little girl.’ I looked up and saw who I believed were the parents looking out of the window.” | |
Twiss said he climbed over the wall and picked the injured girl up before a man he believed to be the girl’s father kicked the gate open and took hold of her. | |
Kerry Wormald, a housekeeper at the nearby Arabella hotel on Albert Road, told the Blackpool Gazette: “A young man came running down to say that there was somebody in the back alley screaming that they needed an ambulance. | Kerry Wormald, a housekeeper at the nearby Arabella hotel on Albert Road, told the Blackpool Gazette: “A young man came running down to say that there was somebody in the back alley screaming that they needed an ambulance. |
“We looked out the back window into the car park and couldn’t see anything, so I went into the back alley to have a look and as I went out I could hear a baby screaming. | “We looked out the back window into the car park and couldn’t see anything, so I went into the back alley to have a look and as I went out I could hear a baby screaming. |
“It sounded like something was coming from next door, so I shouted over. At that point I saw [a man] in the second floor window on the phone. I went out the front. We could hear the sirens on the ambulance and I stood on the street with a few other people flagging it down. The baby was on the full body stretcher in a neck brace and she had a mask over her face.” | “It sounded like something was coming from next door, so I shouted over. At that point I saw [a man] in the second floor window on the phone. I went out the front. We could hear the sirens on the ambulance and I stood on the street with a few other people flagging it down. The baby was on the full body stretcher in a neck brace and she had a mask over her face.” |
A spokeswoman for the North West ambulance service said it sent an ambulance, an air ambulance and two rapid response vehicles to the hotel after being called at 8.46am. | A spokeswoman for the North West ambulance service said it sent an ambulance, an air ambulance and two rapid response vehicles to the hotel after being called at 8.46am. |
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