Busy day for Hartlepool RNLI volunteers

The inshore lifeboat and four volunteer crewmembers launched at 3.55pm and were alongside the casualty and the other emergency services within a few minutes.

The casualty was extracted by stretcher onto the inshore lifeboat and brought back to the Ferry Road lifeboat station to awaiting paramedics.

Hartlepool RNLI lifeboat operations manager Steve Pounder said 'Good communications between ourselves, Coastguard, fire service and the ambulance service brought the incident to a safe conclusion.
It's been a busy week for the volunteers whose commitment to the charity has been outstanding'.

Later that day Hartlepool RNLI were paged at 6.10pm to assist four people who were struggling in the water at Crimdon Dene on the East Durham Coast.
The Hartlepool RNLI inshore lifeboat 'Solihull' and all weather lifeboat John Sharp' launched to attend the incident.
On arrival at the scene the inshore lifeboat crew recovered a person from the water who had swallowed a lot of sea water and was very cold.
The casualty was taken back to the Hartlepool RNLI lifeboat station where paramedics were waiting to deal with him.
The other three people had earlier made there own way back to the beach.

Whilst en-route to Crimdon the all weather lifeboat was then tasked to Ryhope near Sunderland where there were reports of some paddle boarders in danger of being blown out to sea.
Shortly after the request the paddle boarders had made there way to the safety of the shoreline so the all weather lifeboat was stood down.

The all weather lifeboat returned to the Ferry Road lifeboat station at 7.10pm and was refuelled and made ready for service by 7.25pm.

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