Paramedics used specialist equipment to rescue injured grandma who was trapped in Essex maze

 
Maze maize: the grandma fell at the maze in Blake House craft centre, Braintree, Essex (Picture: Facebook/The Original Great Maze)
Alexandra Rucki20 August 2014

Paramedics had to use specialist equipment to rescue a grandma who fell and hurt herself while exploring a maze.

The team were called to the attraction at the Blake House craft centre, in Braintree, Essex, earlier today.

Ambulance crews said the elderly woman was injured while she was exploring the maze in a 10-acre field.

A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: "An elderly woman injured her arm when she fell in a maze.

"As she was in a maze, it was quite difficult for our crews to transport her out using their normal equipment so we dispatched the hazardous area response team, who have a specialist piece of equipment that was used to stretcher the woman out."

The woman was taken to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford for further assessment and treatment.

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