Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has issued a statement on the separate incidents in the region’s waterways yesterday.<\/p>\n
Area Manager Steve Jordan said:<\/p>\n
“The thoughts of everyone in our Service are with the family and friends affected by separate incidents in our waterways yesterday. These are upsetting reminders of how quickly situations can become dangerous around open water.<\/p>\n
“Even on warm days, the water is cold enough to cause cold water shock – which can make you inhale water and affect your movement – if you jump in, fall in or enter the water suddenly. And there could be dangerous objects and strong currents beneath the surface. These risks are real, and the consequences can be fatal.<\/p>\n
“I am urging everyone to have an honest conversation with the young people in their lives. Please remind them that jumping into and swimming in our rivers, reservoirs, lakes, canals and quays can be extremely dangerous, particularly if they are not a strong swimmer.<\/p>\n
“If they get into trouble themselves, they should ‘float to live’ – by tilting their head back, moving their hands and legs, and relaxing to control their breathing.<\/p>\n
“And if they are with someone who gets into difficulty, they should not enter the water themselves. Remember Phone, Float, Throw – Call 999 straight away, tell them to float on their back and throw them something that will help them float<\/p>\n
“We know how tempting it can be to cool off with a swim during hot weather. But we cannot stress enough the dangers you need to consider.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has issued a statement on the separate incidents in the region’s waterways…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,2447,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-salford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}