Two rushed to hospital after huge emergency services response to cullercoats bay

TWO PEOPLE WERE HOSPITALISED - ONE TAKEN BY HELICOPTER - FOLLOWING A WORRYING INCIDENT THAT SAW THEM STRUGGLING IN THE SEA OF CULLERCOATS BAY 20:21, 19 May 2025Updated 20:34, 19 May 2025

Emergency services rescue 2 people in difficulty in the sea at Cullercoats Two people were pulled from the North Sea after being spotted struggling off Cullercoats Bay on Monday evening. A

huge emergency services response saw the coastguard, lifeboat, ambulance service, air ambulance helicopter and police called to the popular North Tyneside beach shortly after 6pm. Two people

have since been taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), one by helicopter and one by road. A spokesperson for HM Coastguard said: "HM Coastguard received a 999 call

just before 18:00 this evening (19 May) reporting two people in difficulty in the water off Tynemouth. "Blyth Coastguard Rescue Team, Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade, Cullercoats RNLI

lifeboat, North East Ambulance Service, an air ambulance and Northumbria Police were all sent. Two people have been recovered from the water and passed into the care of the ambulance

service." A spokesperson for North East Ambulance Service said: "We were called by the coastguard at 18.07 today to support them with a patient who had been rescued from the water.

We dispatched the air ambulance, a paramedic crew, one Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) crew, a clinical team leader and a specialist paramedic to rendezvous at the Lifeboat House in

Cullercoats Bay. "A doctor from Great North Air Ambulance Service led on the treatment of the patient before they were airlifted to the RVI hospital in Newcastle. "Separately, the

coastguard contacted us at 18.15 for a second patient who had been rescued from the water on the south side of Longsands beach in Tynemouth. A paramedic crew conveyed this patient to

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