FIREFIGHTERS will be taking part in an epic Ironman challenge in support of a colleague’s daughter who suffered life-changing injuries after falling into a river. Seventeen-year-old Jodie Punshon was rescued by firefighters when she fell around six metres into the water while walking along the river path with a friend at Pot Green in Summerseat last June. Jodie, who lives with her family in Ramsbottom, suffered life-changing injuries. Doctors diagnosed tetraplegia, meaning that all four of her limbs are affected by loss of movement and feeling. It is unlikely the sixth form student at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School will ever regain the use of her legs.
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Bury firefighters epic challenge in support of colleague s daughter they rescued after she suffered an horrific fall leaving her with life changing injuries.
Jodie Punshon FIREFIGHTERS will be taking part in an epic Ironman challenge in support of a colleague s daughter who suffered life-changing injuries after falling into a river. Seventeen-year-old Jodie Punshon was rescued by Bury Fire Station s Red Watch when she fell six metres in to the water while walking along the river path with a friend at Pot Green in Summerseat last June. Jodie, who lives with her family in Ramsbottom, suffered life-changing injuries in the accident.
FIREFIGHTERS will be taking part in an epic Ironman challenge in support of a colleague s daughter who suffered life-changing injuries after falling into a river. Seventeen-year-old Jodie Punshon was rescued by Bury Fire Station s Red Watch when she fell six metres in to the water while walking along the river path with a friend at Pot Green in Summerseat last June. Jodie, who lives with her family in Ramsbottom, suffered life-changing injuries in the accident. She spent six months in hospital, including undergoing treatment in the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre in Southport after being diagnosed with tetraplegia as a result of the injury, meaning that all four of her limbs are affected by loss of movement and feeling.
Watch: High-rise rescue carried out to free an entangled, struggling gull A GULL which became entangled in wire hanging three stories up on the side of a building in central Cardiff’s High Street has been rescued by the RSPCA and South Wales Fire & Rescue’s Cardiff Central Blue Watch team. Trapped and injured by a loose hanging wire, the suffering bird sadly had to be put to sleep after being freed and brought down from a central Cardiff building. When a local shop worker spotted the struggling bird high up on the High Street building on the morning of Sunday, April 11, he contacted the RSPCA for help.