WILTSHIRE Police have said the large-scale response to an incident at a Wiltshire car park was due to the complexity of the operation.
Police cars, fire engines and ambulances attended the St Stephen's Place multi-storey car park in Trowbridge at around 1pm on Sunday.
At least 21 vehicles remained at the scene to help free a man who was trapped, according to one eyewitness.
Another eyewitness claimed three teenagers were on the top floor of the car park when one climbed over the railings and became stuck.
A Wiltshire Police spokesperson said: “Wiltshire Police officers were in attendance at the St Stephen’s Place multi-storey car park in Trowbridge at about 1pm yesterday (16/06) to support a man who appeared to be undergoing a mental health crisis.
“This was a complex scene and required the involvement of mental health professionals, colleagues from the Fire Service and Ambulance Service to ensure that the person was brought to safety.
"He is now receiving appropriate care.”
Firefighters from three towns used specialist equipment to rescue the person and bring him down from the multi-storey car park.
There was a fire crew from Warminster, a reserve crew from Trowbridge, and the high ladder unit from Swindon as well as an Incident Response Unit, several ambulances and specialist paramedic crews.
A Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "We were called to St Stephen’s Place multi-storey car park in Trowbridge at 1.23pm yesterday (16 June) to assist at a police incident.
"A crew from Warminster attended, as they were on stand-by in Trowbridge while the local crew was at another incident, together with a crew from Chippenham, a technical rescue team from Bridgwater [looking at their travel time, they didn’t come from there] and the aerial ladder platform from Swindon. Our stop was at 2.26pm."
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 13:16hrs on Sunday, 16 June to an incident in Trowbridge.
"We sent one operations officer, a hazardous area response team and a double-crewed land ambulance to the scene and conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Southmead Hospital."
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