Fire crews helped paramedics to evacuate a casualty from the second floor of a block of flats in Douglas.

Crews were called out to a property in Victoria Gardens at 10.55am today (Thursday).

They used an aerial ladder platform to reach the casualty and then extract them from a window.

Douglas fire station officer Matt Tyrer said the condition of the casaulty was ’not believed to be serious’.

Meanwhile, Ramsey and Laxey fire crews were mobilised at about 12.20pm today to a reported boiler fire in a home in Bride.

On arrival, crews entered the property wearing breathing apparatus, equipped with a high pressure hose reel and thermal imaging camera.

Crews discovered a fault with the oil-fired boiler and isolated the power and checked the area with a thermal imaging camera, and confirmed it was a ’non-fire’ situation.