A PERSON has been hospitalised after being bitten by a snake on Creech Heath.
Emergency services were called to the heath, near Wareham, yesterday morning after receiving reports that an individual had been bitten by an adder.
Wareham Fire Station said a fire engine was required to assist the ambulance service following the incident. Fire crews helped transfer the casualty from the heath to a waiting helicopter and then flown to Dorset County Hospital.
Creech Heath lies deep within the isle of Purbeck and covers 80 hectares of land.
A spokeswoman for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said: "We were called to Creech Heath at 11.58am to assist the ambulance service with moving a casualty for transportation to hospital after they were bitten by a snake. One crew from Wareham attended to provide manpower, and the stop was at 12.24pm."
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 10.41hrs today to an incident in the Wareham area. The resources we sent included a double-crewed land ambulance, an operations officer and an air ambulance. We conveyed one patient to Dorset County Hospital by air ambulance”.
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