A large emergency service response occurred this morning in the city centre after two men got into difficulties by the weir.
UPDATE: Flint Lifeboat have updated with information connecting to this incident, saying: “Team paged by Holyhead CGOC to reports of a drifting vessel partly submerged towing a small tender from Chester towards Saltney. CRT searched from Queensferry to the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester along with Flint ILB. ILB found a small tender near the Airbus loading facility which they believed the vessel had sunk leaving just the inflatable tender visible. It is believed the vessel is from an earlier incident involving two men being rescued out of the water in Chester. All relevant information passed to CGOC and all units stood down and returned to stations.”
Firefighters were called at 10:24am to a report of two men in difficulty near Lower Bridge Street in Chester, fire engines and the rescuer boat from Chester attended along with multiple ambulances.
Been through Handbridge it appears focus is on river – possibly a boat in trouble although not a lot visible from southbank by flats.
— TheCestrian (@TheCestrian) December 29, 2015
WHAT possess people (men) to take a small boat out on a raging river. And now they need rescuing from the Dee at Handbridge. #idiots
— AmandaGregson (@AmandaGregson) December 29, 2015
The two men managed to get themselves to safety and they were passed to the care of paramedics.
@chesterhealth @ShitChester lots of emergency vehicles in a short space of time pasding St Martins Way, I didn't see what kind or direction
— Mark J (@ps4markj) December 29, 2015
Fire crews are warning people not to enter the river as the water is moving extremely fast.
Sounds like something serious is happening in #Chester 2 fire engines and 4 ambulances just drove rather quickly down Grosvenor Street
— Charlotte Weeden (@charweeden) December 29, 2015
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