Friday 30
July
16.24
Royal Sands, Weston-super-Mare
Coastguards and
firefighters joined forces when four people and
a dog became trapped in mud in Weston-super-Mare.
It is believed the
group – a male and female, two girls and their dog – had been
trapped in the mud for some time before the Coastguard was alerted.
Coastguards from Weston-super-Mare found the group exhausted and
believed to be suffering from hypothermia.
As the group had
gone out at low tide, they were some 800 metres from hard sand.
Firefighters from Weston-super-Mare launched the AF&RS
hovercraft to bring the group swiftly back to dry land and into the
care of a waiting ambulance.