EMERGENCY crews have been called in after reports of someone in a river in York.
The York Rescue Boat team were called out by North Yorkshire Police at 2.08 this morning (May 23) to reports of a person in the river Ouse near Clifton Bridge in the city centre.
A spokesman for the volunteer rescuers said: "North Yorkshire Fire crews from York station and ourselves deployed boat crew team members into the water to effect a rescue.
"The casualty was handed over to Yorkshire Ambulance."
Group manager Bob Hoskins from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "Crews from York, Acomb, Selby and Malton have rescued a woman from the river at Clifton.
"An MOD4 swift water crew member entered the water to affect the rescue."
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