National Police officers rescued an 82-year-old man in the town of Orihuela, Alicante, preventing him from bleeding to death after he fell from a tree he was pruning on his land and having been seriously injured. open fracture of the tibia of his left leg.
Thanks to a call for help received in room 091 of the CIMACC, we learned that a man had fallen from a TREE from his private house, which he was pruning, after the ladder broke, having been seriously injured.
The National Police officers on duty went to the house and upon arrival, they saw an elderly man, who had both legs stuck between the steps of an iron staircase, with a lot of blood under him, apparently it was assumed he was there. There was some sort of hemorrhage, requiring emergency health care.
As the paramedics arrived and given the urgency of the situation, the officers seeing that they could not free the man from the iron of the ladder, they asked for help from the neighbors present to provide them with a type of tool they could help him with. , being an off-duty local police officer who resides in the same area and who attended the scene to offer assistance, who provided the officers with a radial disc saw and a handsaw.
In this way, the agents, with great haste, managed to cut the rungs of the ladder and free the victim then, thanks to the tactical scissors carried by one of the police officers, they were able to carefully tear the victim’s pants, appreciating at that moment the extent of the injuries sustained to the left leg.
The victim had a serious open fracture in the tibia which was bleeding profusely, so one of the officers, using a particular tourniquet he was carrying, applied it, managing to stop the bleeding, thus preventing the victim to bleed.
At that point, a team of firefighters and health workers arrived on the scene, stabilizing the injured person and transporting him to the ambulance, eventually taking him to the hospital. Vega Baja de Orihuela, escorted by the National Police teams present. to open the door and get to the hospital as quickly as possible given the severity of the victim’s injuries.
Regarding the police intervention carried out, a communication was received from the medical staff of the hospital where the man was admitted, wishing to congratulate the officers for the excellent health work carried out, highlighting “the perfect practical knowledge of the tourniquet carried out on the victim “. , Otherwise, the victim could have died.
