A driver has been rescued after their car plunged through a concrete wall in a multi-storey parking lot at the University of British Columbia.
Matthew Trudeau with the Vancouver Fire Rescue Service says 10 emergency vehicles responded to a call to the campus around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
#Breaking: 10 VFRS apparatus on scene on the 6000 Block of Thunderbird Blvd for a vehicle that went through a 2nd storey parkade to the ground. Heavy Rescue and Technical Rescue teams working to extricate a patient. Media contact: PIO only. pic.twitter.com/l9yvEkyGT8
— Vancouver Fire Rescue Services (@VanFireRescue) January 17, 2024
Trudeau says a large piece of "concrete beam" was on top of the vehicle, complicating the rescue that took place amid heavy falling snow.
The driver was seen being pulled from the wreckage around noon, before being taken away in an ambulance.
Trudeau says the driver was injured but he can't comment further on their condition.
Heavy rescue and technical rescue teams were involved in the operation to free the driver, whose vehicle fell to the ground from the second storey of the building on Thunderbird Boulevard.
Trudeau said there were "numerous safety concerns" around the complex rescue.
