Two Children rescued from Bolton Woods Quarry, Bradford by Firefighters

Two boys both aged around ten have been rescued by fire crews tonight, after fire crews were alerted at around 7pm to a report of persons trapped on a ledge in the Bolton Wood Quarry, Bolton Hall Road, Bradford. 

On arrival it was established that two children had become trapped on a ledge approximately 20' from the ground.  A firefighter was lowered by line to the ledge below along with a ladder and the boys were then recovered using the ladder, helped down by firefighters.
The boys although shaken up by their ordeal were both recovered without sustaining injury

Appliances from line rescue stations were sent to the scene with appliances from Bradford (2), Shipley, Rawdon and Cleckheaton with the Technical Rescue Unit. Police and Ambulance also attended the scene with further support from the Calder Valley Search and Rescue team.

Dramatic river rescue which ended in tragedy in Dewsbury.

Fire crews at the scene ( Image Ash Milnes )

Emergency services and the police helicopter were mobilised at around 9 pm last night to a dramatic river rescue which ended in tragedy.

Police, fire, ambulance and paramedics were called out at 8pm last night after a man was spotted in the Calder River in Ravensthorpe.

Five fire crews, including firefighters from Rothwell,  Rastrick, Mirfield and Leeds, attended the scene and water-rescue trained officers scoured the banks in the darkness above and below the Calder Road bridge where the man was thought to have entered the water.

Using searchlights and thermal imaging equipment, the police helicopter alerted the teams to what was believed to be a person in the water.

An inflatable rescue sled was launched with swift water-trained fire officers and an ambulance heart team.

No one could be found and following a further call from the eyewitness, all the officers were redeployed several hundred yards upstream, along with a second inflatable.

The police helicopter’s sophisticated heat-seeking equipment then picked up signs of a person and a man was plucked out of the water by fire crews and paramedics searching along the river banks.

The casualty, a man aged about 60, was unconscious and was given CPR at the scene, near Ravensthorpe Industrial Estate in Lock Way.

He was taken to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield where he later died.