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They tweeted: "This note was left on the windscreen of a marked rapid response vehicle while a member of Team EEAST attended a medical emergency.

One of the brigade response vehicles was blocked inside the Ettington Road hub by the driver's 'poor judgement'.

"There was an ambulance and a rapid response vehicle there.

"Stopped a vehicle driving erratically, mother thinks girl is choking, officers get mother and child in the Armed Response Vehicle and take her straight to A&E where she was treated for a seizure."

Two ambulances and a rapid response vehicle were dispatched and the patient was taken to the University Hospital of North Tees.

At least six police vehicles, an ambulance and an emergency response vehicles were at the scene following the incident at about 6am.

"At the request of the rapid response vehicle two more were sent.

Already equipped with a 4x4 Land Rover and a Vauxhall control van, the purchase increases its fleet of response vehicles to three.

"The response vehicle will mainly benefit women and will handle all cases of injuries.

The ambulance service said an ambulance had been dispatched to the patient in Tranmere at the same time as the rapid response vehicle and had reached her within seven minutes of the original 999 call.

The city's community first responders are often first on the scene of an emergency, while an ambulance is on its way, and now the group have their very own fully-kitted 4x4 rapid response vehicle to ensure they can get where they are needed.

A paramedic's rapid response vehicle was shunted in the aftermath of the original crash on the eastbound carriageway of the A55 Expressway at Abergele at 9.47am.