Chilliwack first responders dispatched for reported fall at Yarrow construction site

CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack first responders were paged Monday morning (Mar. 31) for the report of a fall at a construction site.

According to scanner traffic, a person fell approximately 20 feet onto a concrete surface below.

The incident reportedly occurred at a construction site on Yarrow Central Road where an addition is being constructed onto a church.

“Members of the RCMP were dispatched to a report of a fall,” RCMP spokesperson Corporal Teresa Parsons said. “My understanding is that the injured person was transported by air ambulance to hospital but I do not know the extent of their injuries. There is not believed to be any criminal element to the incident.”

An air ambulance landed at Yarrow Community School at about 8:40 a.m. and departed at roughly 9:15 a.m. for a hospital. Students from the nearby school were not outside when the ambulance landed. Around the time that the patient was being transported from a ground ambulance to a helicopter, two RCMP units and an ambulance were stationed at a construction site at Yarrow Alliance Church on Yarrow Central Road.

Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / Police and ambulance were stationed at a construction site on Yarrow Central Road after a person reportedly fell.

Fraser Valley Today has reached out to B.C. Emergency Health Services for more information about the incident.