PARAMEDICS were called to a medical emergency on Castlemaine Road in Weymouth this morning.

Three ambulance crews and two fire crews were seen at a property at around 5am on Tuesday, May 21.

A spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said: "Technical rescue teams from Weymouth were called to Castlemaine Road at 4.54am this morning to assist our ambulance colleagues in gaining access to a patient."

The fire service left the scene at around 5.55am.

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said:

“We were called at 3.40am on Tuesday, May 21 to an incident in Weymouth. We sent three double-crewed land ambulances to the scene and conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Dorset County Hospital."