A CLIFF rescue exercise that took place at Petit Port has impressed chief ambulance officers from Jersey and the Isle of Man.

The training assignment, carried out by the Guernsey Ambulance & Rescue Service, demonstrated the island’s unique way of dealing with patients.

The ‘rescue’, which involved a fake patient being lowered from the cliff into a rescue boat, showed that a person with medical training could be with a patient every step of the way.

In Jersey, cliff rescues are performed by the fire service, while the Isle of Man use the coastguard and the RNLI.

Chief ambulance officer for the Isle of Man, Steve Sieling, said it had been useful to see how the local service did cliff rescues.

‘It is useful to see how it is done because in Jersey any line [rope] rescue is done by the fire service,’ he said.

‘It’s good as, right from the off, a patient has someone from the ambulance service with them.’