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The air ambulance landed in a County Durham town on Saturday morning after a medical incident.
Residents of Chester-le-Street reported seeing a Great North Air Ambulance (GNAAS) helicopter land in the Pelton Fell area around 10am.
A spokesperson for GNAAS said: "Our critical care team was activated at 10.23am to reports of a medical incident in Chester-le-Street.
"We had a paramedic and doctor on board our aircraft and they arrived on scene at 10.28am."
A spokesperson for North East Ambulance Service added: "We were called at 9.30am for a medical incident at a private address in the Chester-le-Street area.
"We dispatched two emergency ambulance crews, the air ambulance and a clinical team leader."