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HEROIC DAD TELLS OF RIVER SEVERN RESCUE DRAMA IN BEWDLEY

29/9/2020

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Hero Steve Bull, right, with his dad Dave by the River Severn where Steve rescued a woman from the water.
An heroic Brierley Hill dad has told how an early morning fishing session in Bewdley turned into a dramatic river rescue after he spotted a woman in the water.
Self-employed electrician Steve Bull had just been setting up at Blackstone Farm with his dad Dave for a morning by the riverside just after 6am on Friday 
August 21 when he noticed a woman floating downstream in the River Severn.

He said he saw a person's "head bobbing up and down" and instinctively stripped off to dive into the water.

Steve, aged 31, who has a 10-month-old daughter, said he didn't think about the dangers - he "just acted on human instinct".

Once in the water, which he said "wasn't as cold" as it could have been, he swam out to the middle of the river and, no longer able to touch the bottom, he managed to grab hold of the woman - thought to be in her 50s - and drag her back to the side of the river.

Steve, from Moor Street, told the News: "I couldn't get her out of the water itself. Dad got a rope so she didn't go anywhere."

After around 20 to 30 minutes in the water, Steve managed to raise the alarm and call the emergency services.

West Midlands Ambulance Services Hazardous Area Response Team attended the scene, off Stourport Road, along with two ambulances and two paramedic officers and they managed to pull the woman, believed to be from Wales, from the water.
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Dean Page
5/10/2020 02:02:27 pm

Well done to both of them, who knows what could have happened if you not there. Right place right time.

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