Shropshire ambulance staff deal with almost 100 New Year 999 calls
Ambulance staff were kept busy as revellers saw in the new year across Shropshire, with more crews on duty than ever before.
As expected, there was a steady increase in emergency calls in the last four hours of 2015, towards midnight. Between 8pm and midnight, there were 32 '999' calls made in Shropshire.
The first '999' call of 2016 came in just 30 seconds into the New Year, with the busiest hour between 1am and 2am as more alcohol-related calls came in including assaults, falls and unconscious patients.
From midnight until 4am, there were 66 '999' calls across the county.
In Shrewsbury, West Midlands Ambulance Service worked with Community First Responders, St John Ambulance volunteers and the town's street pastors to run the town's first Temporary Minor Injury Unit.
Paramedic Officer Cliff Medlicott, who was running the unit, said: "We dealt with some alcohol-related patients, one of whom ultimately needed to go to A&E, others we helped on their way home."
West Midlands Ambulance Service chief executive Anthony Marsh said: "I am very grateful and very proud of all my staff that worked through the year and through the night to keep everyone safe, putting the public before themselves and their families.
"I would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year."
