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Sophie Finnegan

Coastguard, police and fire crews rush to County Durham beach to rescue injured person

An injured person was rescued by the coastguard, police, and fire crews from a beach in County Durham in the early hours of the morning.

Hartlepool RNLI volunteers were called at 1.19am on Monday by Humber Coastguard to assist the coastguard, police and fire crews to recover an injured person from the beach at Easington Colliery.

They launched an inshore lifeboat at 1.37am followed by the all-weather lifeboat which launched at 1.41am. The inshore lifeboat was on scene at 1.50am and the all-weather lifeboat arrived on scene at 1.55am.

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