Call-out 13/09/2020 46/20
** Person reported in the water **
At 22.24hrs last night the Boyne Fishermen's Rescue & Recovery Service emergency paging system was activated to the reports of a person in the water between Dominic Street Bridge and the bridge of peace.
We dispatched our inshore rescue boat and scene crew to the location of the incident.
As scene crew arrived on scene the fast thinking and actions from a member of the public nearby managing to use a nearby lifering to secure the casualty to the river Bank.
Then Drogheda Gardai done a rapid transfer of the casualty over to the Drogheda Garda Station where a National Ambulance Service crew arrived.
Crews restaged the lifering on scene afterwards then were stood down returning to base to wash,restage and fuel the equipment.
On scene at tonights incident was Drogheda Gardai & National Ambulance Service.