Two teens were airlifted to hospital after separate incidents three minutes apart yesterday at Auckland's Piha and Muriwai beaches
Two teens were airlifted to hospital after separate incidents three minutes apart yesterday at Auckland's Piha and Muriwai beaches
2 January 2021
At the peak there were 11 thousand people at the region's 22 patrolled beaches.
Surf Lifesaving Northern Region operations manager Alan Gibson says they rescued eight people.
He says they also carried out 800 preventative actions across the day - which involved more than four thousand beach-goers.