Firefighters called as woman suffers leg injury after getting trapped in canoe
Firefighters were called out after a woman suffered a leg injury while getting into a canoe, which resulted in her becoming trapped.
Crews assisted coastguard and paramedics to remove the woman from the canoe using a spinal board and lifted her up the bankside to a waiting ambulance.
The incident in Whitby happened at 1.15pm.
Later in the day (Aug 7) crews from Whitby and Lythe responded to reports of a fire to an oven in the kitchen of a commercial property in Dunsley.
On-site staff extinguished the fire prior to the fire service’s arrival using a fire blanket.
The blaze caused damage to the cooker only and smoke logging to the kitchen.
Crews isolated the gas supply locally and the mains and advised for a gas engineer to attend.
The incident happened at 6.33pm.