A man has miraculously escaped life-threatening injuries after he fell from a rooftop and became wedged between two buildings in the heart of Perth’s CBD.
Police were alerted to a man trapped in a 600mm wide narrow cavity in a laneway between the Murray Street and Hay Street malls about 6.30am on Sunday.
A bystander alerted police after hearing the man’s cries for help before multiple fire crews arrived ready to remove the man from the cavity.
Department of Fire and Emergency Services acting district officer Gareth Deeg said it took crews less than an hour to save the injured man.
“The crews were able to use what we call vertical rescue techniques, where we lowered a paramedic and a firefighter down to the cavity where we were able to secure the male,” he said.
After firefighters broke a window and removed the man through a tunnel he was loaded into an ambulance and taken to Royal Perth Hospital.
“He was in some forms of pain in different parts of his body, but he was able to hold a conversation and give key information back to the paramedics and DFES personnel, as to the nature of his injuries,” Mr Deeg said.
7NEWS reports the man was trapped for at least four hours after falling from the fifth floor of the building.
He was found lying on his back, in between the buildings with his knees pulled to…