VIDEO: Two men injure when a scaffold slowly collapsed or slid while the men were doing siding at a home in the Stonegate neighborhood.
Arlington Heights police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 10:43 AM Tuesday to a report of a construction or maintenance accident at 112 South Windsor Drive Arlington Heights, IL. Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that two men fell from a collapse scaffolding and were injured from the fall.
The firefighter/paramedic crew from Ambulance 3 transported one patient to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. The crew from Ambulance 4 transported one patient to Northwest Community Hospital.
Both patients were packaged and immobilized as a precaution for their injuries.
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