Snowfall causes issues across parts of UK as cold snap intensifies
Cameron McVittie, a tactical commander with West Midlands ambulance service, said:
On being rescued, the four children were taken under blue lights to hospital with an advanced care team. Two were taken to Birmingham Children’s Hospital and two to Heartlands in Birmingham. All four children were in critical condition on arrival.
Unfortunately, the children in the water were in cardiac arrest and were receiving advanced life support en route to hospital.
We know that the weather forecast for the next few days is expected to be bitterly cold, please, adults and children alike, stay away from open water, under no circumstances venture on to ice regardless how thick or safe you think this ice may be.
When our firefighters arrived, a number of police officers and members of the public were in the water trying to reach and rescue the children.
Our crews entered the water, swam to the first child and our specialist-trained firefighters, including technical rescue, rescued three further children.
So, after rescuing the four children, we have continued the search and rescue operation to confirm whether there were any more in the water. The specialist medical advice we have been given on the scene, given the temperature of the water, given the age of those who entered the water and the amount of time they have been in there, this would no longer be a search and rescue operation.
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