NEGOTIATORS spent more than three hours talking down a man who was threatening to jump 100ft from a roof at the Thwaites Brewery building in Blackburn.
Police and a fire crew were called out at about 11pm after the man had contacted his family by mobile phone from the roof over the brewery car park.
Blackburn fire brigade watch commander Kevin Gibson said that when they arrived the man was in a distressed state and was suffering from injuries to his right arm.
He said: "He was threatening to jump.
"We put up a ladder and a police negotiator went up to talk to him."
Eventually the man, who was in his 20s, was persuaded to come down and was taken to Blackburn Infirmary.
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