- Man, 27, winched to safety after getting stuck overnight in a Melbourne drain
- Paramedics arrived to find the injured man inside the stormwater drain in Epping
- He was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition with head injury
A 27-year-old man has been winched to safety by an ambulance helicopter after getting stuck in a Melbourne storm water drain overnight.
Emergency services were called to the drain in Epping at about 1am on Tuesday.
They arrived to find a man with head injuries stuck inside the drain, blocked off from public access by extensive cyclone security fencing.
A 27-year-old man has been winched to safety by an ambulance helicopter after getting stuck in a Melbourne storm water drain
He was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious but stable condition with head injuries
Paramedics battled to reach the man and were forced to call in an ambulance helicopter to help winch him out of the drain.
He was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious but stable condition with head injuries.
It’s understood he will undergo a mental health assessment, according to 3AW.
‘The flight paramedic was winched down and further supported the patient before he was airlifted out,’ Gavan Keane from Victoria Ambulance told 7 News.
‘It was quite a difficult extrication, but it went quite smoothly.’
Neighbours who were woken by the overnight operation described seeing dozens of emergency workers attempting to rescue the stuck man.
The drain was blocked off from public access by extensive cyclone security fencing