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Emergency Services at the scene on Saturday night(Image: Belfast Live)<\/p>\nThe incident occurred on Saturday night as revellers were leaving a UB40 concert<\/p>\n
19:44, 10 Aug 2025Updated 19:45, 10 Aug 2025<\/p>\n
Emergency Services at the scene on Saturday night(Image: Belfast Live)<\/p>\n
A 22-year-old man was taken to hospital after he was rescued from a ravine close to the Falls Park<\/a> as concert goers made their way home from a UB40 gig in the park on Saturday night.<\/p>\n The male, who was found to be unconscious in a body of water, was rescued using specialist rope equipment.<\/p>\n After receiving treatment at the scene, he was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital<\/a> by ambulance.<\/p>\n A NIFRS spokesperson said: “The Fire and Rescue Service received a call on 9 August at 22:42 to a report of a male stuck down a ravine in water at the Falls Park.<\/p>\n “The Fire Service<\/a> mobilised two fire engines from Cadogan Station and the specialist rescue team from Central Fire Station.<\/p>\n “The PSNI<\/a> and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service were on the scene and also assisted with the rescue.<\/p>\n “The 22-year-old male was unconscious, and he was removed from the ravine using specialist rope rescue equipment.<\/p>\n “He received treatment and was left in the care of the Ambulance Service<\/a>.”<\/p>\n A Northern Ireland Ambulance Service<\/a> spokesperson added: “The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service received a 999 call at 22:47 on Saturday, 9 August, following reports of an incident in the Falls Road area of Belfast<\/p>\n ” NIAS<\/a> despatched an Emergency Crew to the incident.<\/p>\n “Following assessment and initial treatment at the scene, one patient was taken to RVH.”<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage<\/strong> here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident occurred on Saturday night as revellers were leaving a UB40 concert 19:44, 10 Aug 2025Updated 19:45,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,119752,94157,94226,7916,92050,1618,15288,16,15,94156],"class_list":{"0":"post-334166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-falls-park","10":"tag-falls-road","11":"tag-feile-an-phobail","12":"tag-nifrs","13":"tag-northern-ireland-ambulance-service","14":"tag-psni","15":"tag-royal-victoria-hospital","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-belfast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115006715209315487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NIFRS](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_1000084971.jpg\")
The NIFRS rescued the man using specialist equipment(Image: Belfast Live)<\/p>\n