A number of small children were rescued from the sea after getting into difficulty as thousands flocked to the coast for Blackpool Air Show on one of the hottest days on record.
A post on the RNLI facebook said: “The station was manned all the time with two lots of crew as it would have been difficult to get to the station with the amount of people in Blackpool today.”
They also kept their Atlantic 85 vessel in the water for the duration of the event, returning to the station around 17:45. The crew were also called out at Squires Gate at 9:15am to rescue a man in a small boat. It brings the total number of call-outs during 2022 so far to 103.
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