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UPDATE (w/video): Air ambulance lands at Maple Ridge high school after reports of a fall

47-year-old man from Surrey taken to hospital.
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A patient is loaded into an air ambulance at SRT in Maple Ridge in Friday.

A B.C. air ambulance landed at Samuel Robertson Technical School in east Maple Ridge Friday afternoon, the day after high schools let out, after reports of a fall.

Ridge Meadows RCMP received a call around 3 p.m. B.C. Ambulance were already on scene.

A 47-year-old Surrey man fell off a ladder that was propped against a tree, police said.

The incident occurred in the 10900 block of 248 Street, near SRT. Police assisted the Maple Ridge fire department with providing a landing site for the B.C. Air Ambulance.

The man was airlifted to hospital with what is believed to be non-life threatening injuries, according to RCMP.

Maple Ridge fire chief Howard Exner said the man was badly injured.

“Ambulance thought he was injured badly enough to call a helicpopter to transport him. They don’t do that for just anybody.”