Plymouth RNLI launch to Victoria Wharf
The Plymouth RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew were tasked to Victoria Wharf to assist with two casualties that had fallen from the quayside.
Plymouth RNLI inshore lifeboat (Annabel E Jones) and her volunteer crew of four was tasked at 11.50pm on Monday 8 October to reports of two people that had fallen in the water at Victoria Wharf.
The Plymouth volunteer crew arrived on scene at Victoria Wharf to find two casualties that had fallen from the quay wall on to the boat below. With help from South West ambulance service, MOD Police and Plymouth Coastguard, the volunteer RNLI crew evacuated the two casualtues on the MOD Police boat to the Barbican ferry pontoon for onward transfer to Derriford Hospital.
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