🚨Woman pulled from River Aire in water rescue, Castleford

Fire crews were called to Lock Lane just after 11pm on Saturday after police reported a woman on a bridge.

She entered the water shortly after crews arrived.

On-scene teams carried out the rescue using a tethered swing and handed her over to paramedics.

Appliances from Rothwell, Ossett, Castleford and Garforth attended, along with supporting officers.

The incident has now been marked as finished.

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