Firefighters help assist ambulance service to rescue person from canal in Ripon
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and paramedics came to the rescue of a person on a boat on the canal in Ripon over the weekend.
Firefighters from Ripon were called to Boroughbridge Road at 12.23am on Saturday morning to help assist ambulance crews with moving a patient from a long boat.
The fire crew helped to move the casualty into a seated position to allow paramedics to carry out an assessment.
The crew liaised with paramedics and staff from the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) to establish a plan of action.
The North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service’s incident report said: “Crews then assisted the casualty from the boat to the pontoon and left them in the care of ambulance crews.”