One person has been airlifted to hospital while a second was transported by road following an accident in North Clare this afternoon.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood that two people had been working at a property at Caheraderry near Lahinch when they fell from up to 6 metres through a roof. The incident occurred shortly after midday.<\/p>\n
After the alarm was raised, the National Ambulance Service dispatched multiple resources to the scene including two road ambulances and two helicopters.<\/p>\n
Air Corps 112, the Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) air ambulance based in Athlone, was tasked to the incident. That helicopter is operated jointly between the HSE and Irish Air Corps.<\/p>\n
The HSE\u2019s own Cork-based air ambulance, Aeromed-01, was also requested to respond to the scene. Both helicopters were able to land in a field close to the location.<\/p>\n
The two casualties were assessed and treated at the scene before one was taken by road amublance to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.<\/p>\n
The second patient was transported by ambulance from the scene across the field to the Air Corps helicopter and airlifted to a hospital in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been airlifted to hospital while a second was transported by road following an accident in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-553760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}