A Midlothian couple were forced to flee their home via the top floor window after being attacked by their own dog.
Emergency services rushed to Dalkeith following reports of a Staffy dog attacking its owner, as the ordeal was captured on the BBC Scotland show Paramedics on Scene.
The show, which gives insight into the work ambulance crew members and call handlers carry out every day, recently returned for another series and follows crews from across the country.
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During last week's episode, crew members Kim and Scott were first to attend the distress call, and arrived to see one male dangling out of the second-storey bedroom window, with his partner and the dog located elsewhere within the property.
Afraid they could also be attacked, the ambulance crew awaited instructions from both the police and fire service while trying to stop the distressed man falling out of the window.
"The gentleman at the window was very distressed, so my concern was that he was going to fall out. There were multiple times he was sitting half out the window," Scott commented.
Kim added: "We had multiple resources coming, we had police, the fire service and police dogs but it was how we were going to get staff up into the house without the dog potentially going for one of them."
When the man informs ambulance staff that his partner is bleeding heavily from a bite, their priorities turn to communicating with her to try and stop her losing any more blood.
Another paramedic arrives on scene and is forced to throw a bandage through the window so the man can use it to dress his partner's wound, but he is still tasked with making it past the dog to get to her.
With audible screams coming from the woman in the other room, the man panics and struggles to carry out any of the instructions given. Paramedics eventually get the man to take a picture of his partner's wound on his phone and throw it down to them so they know what they are dealing with.
When the fire service arrive, paramedics are able to finally gain access through the window via a ladder and treat the patient, who reportedly had multiple 'significant' injuries and punctures to the skin.
A height appliance carrying a block stretcher is also deployed by firefighters to carefully withdraw the woman through the window as the dogs were blocked from gaining access due to a glass door.
The woman was eventually transported into the back of the ambulance and rushed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
All episodes of Paramedics on Scene are available to stream on the BBC iPlayer, with a new episode released every Sunday at 9pm.
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