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Youths overturn canoe causing huge rescue response

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team Keswick Mountain Rescue Team members, all wearing red emergency clothing, prepare to send off a rib boat into Thirlmere. There are two rescuers wearing red diving suits and it is pitch black and late at night. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team
A huge emergency response involved teams from Cumbria Fire Service and a helicopter flying from Wales

A canoe which was pushed into a lake by youths sparked a huge emergency response involving a helicopter flying from Wales.

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) said it deployed search teams to Thirlmere in the Lake District after reports were received of an overturned canoe, with the potential for people in the water, near the dam late on Friday evening.

Cumbria Fire Service deployed a boat onto the reservoir, while a HM Coastguard Helicopter flew in from Caernarfon, North Wales, to help with the search.

KMRT said it then received a report that "three youths admitted to pushing a boat into the water".

The team said it had thoroughly searched the shore from the Armboth area to Thirlmere dam before standing down.

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