Monday 28 May 2007
16.58 Mead Lane, Saltford
Fire crews rescued a pensioner from the River Avon at Saltford
following a call-out to a report of a man overboard.
On arrival firefighters found a 60-year-old man clinging to a barge
in the middle of the waterway. Crews were able to board the vessel
before pulling the holidaymaker to safety after he had spent some
30 minutes in the water.
Ambulance personnel then treated the man before he was taken to
hospital for a precautionary check up