Fire crews were called to the scene (Image: Newsquest)
FIRE crews were called to help rescue a man from a river in North Yorkshire earlier today.
Water rescue crews from Ripon, Boroughbridge, Richmond, Harrogate and Selby responded to a report of a male partially in the river near Lowfield Lane in Sharow at around 9.40am today.
The man was brought back up the embankment by fire crews and paramedics on a spinal board to a waiting helicopter for transfer to hospital with hypothermic symptoms.
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