A MAJOR emergency response was sparked in Greenock last night after a youth fell around 20ft from a wall.

Police, paramedics and firefighters rushed to the scene of the incident in Kelly Street at South Street just after 8pm.

A spokeswoman from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said two boys who are in their mid-teens had been on the wall that bounds an electrical substation when one of them slipped and fell off, suffering a fracture.

She said: "Two youths got stuck on the wall, they couldn't get down because it was too high.

"One of the youths slipped off and was taken to hospital with a fracture.

"The firefighters helped the other youth down."

Firefighters had to use an aerial rescue platform to rescue the other youth.

South Street was sealed off by the police, between the cemetery roundabout and the junction with Kelly Street, as a result of the incident.

A spokesman from the fire service added: "The ambulance service were already dealing with the boy who had fallen so we rescued the other boy from the wall.

"We used an aerial rescue platform to rescue the youth from the 20ft wall which bounds the electrical sub station.

"Some of the masonry had fallen off, so due to the suspected unsafe nature of the structure we couldn't use a ladder."

Police closed the road to traffic while the emergency services were in attendance.