'Three lives saved in ten hours'

HUMBER RESCUE EXPERIENCES 'ONE OF THE BUSIEST AND MOST DEMANDING OPERATIONAL DAYS IN MEMORY'

- By DEBORAH HALL

HUMBER Rescue has experienced one of the most challenging nights in its history, saving three people's lives.

On Friday, May 23, Humber Rescue responded to multiple serious incidents across the River Humber in what it described as an “intense and emotionally demanding ten-hour period”.

At 6.06pm, the lifeboat was tasked to reports of two vessels aground near Brough, one with two people on board, including an elderly man, and the other with a single occupant.

“While en route to that incident, we were immediately re-tasked to a separate emergency nearby on the River Humber,” a spokesperson for Humber Rescue said. “Upon arrival, the situation rapidly escalated, and our crew was faced with a person in the water in critical need of help.

“Within just two minutes, the casualty was recovered into the lifeboat and received immediate care from the crew before being transferred to shore and shortly after, handed over to Yorkshire Ambulance Service for onward treatment at hospital.”

The rescue service's D-Class boat was then tasked back to Brough to assess the grounded vessels but, shortly after arriving, the crew were again re-tasked to a third emergency, with reports of another person in the water, again within the vicinity of the Humber Rescue station, at Hessle foreshore.

“Both boats responded at speed and conducted a co-ordinated search,” the spokesperson said. “After 40 minutes, the call was stood down as a false alarm with good intent.”