A scots couple took extreme measures when they were forced to flee their home after being attacked by their own dog.
Emergency services rushed to the scene in Dalkeith following reports of a Staffy dog attacking its owner when they found one man dangling out of a top floor window, reports Edinburgh Live.
The ordeal was captured on the BBC Scotland show Paramedics on Scene, which follows ambulance crew members and call handlers out on the job.
The latest episode saw crew members Kim and Scott first on the scene to the distress call. 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 man's partner and the dog were elsewhere in the property.
"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."
The ambulance crews attention quickly turned to the partner inside the house when the man informed them that they were bleeding heavily from a bite .
To stop her losing any more blood, another paramedic arrived 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.
Audible screams can be heard coming from the woman in the other room and 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.
Finally paramedics are able to finally gain access through the window via a ladder when the fire services arrive. They find the patient is suffering from multiple 'significant' injuries and punctures to the skin.
A height appliances carrying a block stretcher is used to bring the woman through the window as the dogs were blocked from gaining access due to a glass door.
She was 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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