{"id":167181,"date":"2022-11-21T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=167181"},"modified":"2022-11-21T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:46:00","slug":"woman-and-two-children-are-rescued-from-quicksand-on-a-somerset-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/woman-and-two-children-are-rescued-from-quicksand-on-a-somerset-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and two children are rescued from quicksand on a Somerset beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Woman and two children are rescued from quicksand on a Somerset beach after sinking in up to their knees<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Woman and two children were stuck in quicksand in Burnham-On-Sea, Somerset<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They were rescued by emergency services, after a close call with incoming tide<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The shifting sands at the West Country beach are notorious among locals\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman and two children were rescued after finding themselves trapped in quicksand on a beach notorious for its shifting sands.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews, Coastguards and a hovercraft were called after the trio got stuck at Burnham-On-Sea, Somerset on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Two fire crew members wearing safety equipment quickly managed to free the boy from knee-deep mud, followed shortly afterwards by the woman and girl.<\/p>\n<p>A fire spokesman said that due to the incoming tide, several teams had been called to enable a swift rescue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/21\/17\/64783363-11453631-image-a-1_1669050930914.jpg\" height=\"353\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A woman and two children were rescued after finding themselves trapped in quicksand in Somerset<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/21\/17\/64783369-11453631-image-a-2_1669050934083.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fire crews, Coastguards and a hovercraft were called after the trio got stuck at Burnham-On-Sea, Somerset on Saturday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/21\/17\/64783373-11453631-image-m-5_1669051965684.jpg\" height=\"1040\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Two fire crew members wearing safety equipment quickly managed to free the boy (pictured) from knee-deep mud, followed shortly afterwards by the woman and girl<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness said: &#8216;The lady and two children just seemed to be unlucky to get stuck in a patch of soft sand and mud in the middle of the beach.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After they raised the alarm, the emergency services were quickly there in minutes to help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The lady was very relieved that it all ended positively.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The area around Burnham-on-Sea and Weston-Super-Mare has seen a host of similar incidents involving quicksand over the years.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, a holidaymaker was forced to watch helplessly as his car was -submerged in the sands off Weston-Super-Mare.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbyist photographer Tim Curtis, 61, had been heading down the beachfront when he spotted a seven-seater Ford stuck in the sand and decided to capture the moment on camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His images showed\u00a0all four of the vehicle&#8217;s wheels sinking into the sand while the helpless driver stood nearby on the phone and the tide drew nearer.<\/p>\n<p>Just moments later, the van submerged in the depths of the water, with just the top half of the vehicle protruding from the waves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/21\/17\/46770571-11453631-The_holidaymaker_was_forced_to_watch_helplessly_as_his_van_began-m-7_1669052225759.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The holidaymaker was forced to watch helplessly as his van began to sink into the sand at Weston-Super-Mare beach on August 14 last year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/21\/17\/46770579-11453631-The_helpless_driver_stood_nearby_as_the_the_tide_drew_nearer_and-m-8_1669052240078.jpg\" height=\"460\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The helpless driver stood nearby as the the tide drew nearer and his seven-seater Ford was washed away by the sea<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/08\/17\/11\/46770575-9901067-image-m-60_1629197866607.jpg\" height=\"399\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The holidaymaker had attempted to drive close to the sea to give his child a closer look when the vehicle became stuck and began to drift into the sea<\/p>\n<p> Mr Curtis said\u00a0<span>he was told the holidaymaker attempted to drive too close to the sea to give his child a closer look.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The disgruntled owner returned the following morning when the tide had gone out, but he was unable to recover the vehicle, which remained there the following night &#8211; more than four high tides since it was first stranded.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0construction contract manager last insisted\u00a0<span>he had &#8216;no sympathy&#8217; with the driver because he hadn&#8217;t read the warning signs about on-beach driving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In August 2019, a woman and her niece also had to be rescued from quicksand in Weston-Super-Mare after the young girl wandered into the mire.<\/p>\n<p>After following her niece 1000ft out under the pier, the aunt found herself stuck in mud, sinking up to her waist.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and rescue crews were called and arrived by hovercraft to help the pair out of the quicksand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/02\/11\/16807870-7314167-image-a-4_1564742544803.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The rescue begins: Firemen begin laying planks of wood to provide a safer pathway to reach the stuck aunt<\/p>\n<p>The fire crew were able to get close to the woman before laying planks of wood to provide a more stable surface to reach her.<\/p>\n<p>One witness said: &#8216;I was getting a coffee on the high street when I saw the hovercraft going through town and down to the beach.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I followed them to see what was going on, and there was already a crowd of around a couple of hundred as well as an ambulance.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After 20 minutes the fire crew had managed to get across to the woman and after using the wooden planks to help lever her out, she was freed to a round of applause from onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being entombed and at risk of sinking further, the woman apparently appeared unfazed, using her phone to keep distracted before crews arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11453631\/Woman-two-children-rescued-quicksand-Somerset-beach-sinking-knees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman and two children are rescued from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Woman and two children are rescued from quicksand on a Somerset beach - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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