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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Chadwell Heath: Boy, 3, rushed to hospital after falling from window at east London home

A three-year-old boy was rushed to hospital after falling from a second-floor window in east London on Monday evening.

The toddler fell from a home in Westfield Gardens, Chadwell Heath, shortly after 6pm.

An air ambulance took the youngster to hospital where his injuries were deemed “not life-threatening or life-changing”.

A Met spokesperson said: “Police were called at 6.14pm on Monday to reports of a child falling from a second-floor window at an address in Westfield Gardens, Chadwell Heath.

“The child, a three-year-old boy, was taken by London Ambulance Service to an east London hospital where his condition was not life-threatening or life-changing. There were no arrests."

A spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service said it was called at 6.07pm.

“We sent a number of resources to the scene, including two ambulance crews, a medic in a fast response car, an incident response officer and a clinical team manager,” said the spokesperson.

“We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance. Our first medics arrived in around two minutes. We treated a child at the scene before taking them to a major trauma centre as a priority.”

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