A man, believed to be 31, who jumped from Vista Building yesterday evening lived in the property.
Emergency services involving the air ambulances, fire service, ambulances and paramedics, as well as police, scrambled to the scene at about 3.30pm, after residents reported hearing a loud thud on what they believed was the roof of the lower front shops.
As Air ambulance helicopter scrambled to Woolwich, onlookers at the town centre reported seeing it scanning the surounding areas from the air, before landing in front of the Tesco Extra Stores.
We enquired from the pilot who said he brought a team of paramedics to attend to a reported injured man in Calderwood Street.
At Calderwood Street, police tape sealed off the area as eight emergency vehicles blocked the road and fire service personnel climbed up the roof of the front shops, emerging and pulling down the ladder shortly afterwards.
As people began to disperse, observers thought it might have been a prank call by a hoaxer, but paramedics emmerged 10 minutes later with an injured man on a stretcher. There were strips of dried blood on his neck and sign he might have bled from his ear.
He was still noticeably conscious and partly covered in light clothing and he was shaking. As a paramedic spoke to him, he made effort to respond to his statements. He had a tattoo on his neck and was said to be resident in apartment 305.
It was however not clear if he jumped from his own apartment or lept from a higher floor.
Shortly afterwards, clues to a more serious injury became aparent when medics attached a neck brace, and then steadied his head with a stretcher head support. He was then wheeled unto the ambulance on his way to the hospital.
As observers argued wether he actually jumped, a crew member said an on-site camera appeared to confirm so. It was not clear why.
This morning, staffs of the front shops were unaware of the incidence of the previous evening, and reports that he fell through into a Dentists shop appear to be incorrect, because staff from the shop told Woolwich Online they had seen no sign of damage to their roof or that anything happened to any part of their shop.
We checked with a Manpower, a nearby Recruitment Agency and a Beauty shop along the front of the bulding and all said they had seen no sign there was a damage to their shops.
A Chinese Restaurant and a Coffee Shop were not open when we called at Vista Building, this morning.
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