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Fire Service Sorry as No Water Safety Training in Yorkshire Coast Schools

Parents on the Yorkshire Coast are been warned that their children haven't received water safety training, in school, this year.

As a number of organisations across Yorkshire come together to launch a summer water wise campaign, Tony Peel from North Yorkshire Fire and rescue says the pandemic means they havent been able to do the in-school work that they would normally do in the summer term:

Extra safety equipment is being installed a number of locations in North Yorkshire where there is a higher risk of drowning.

The new Water Wise safety campaign has been launched by a number of organisations accross Yorkshire, this week, to highlight the dangers of swimming in rivers, lakes and the sea.

Tony says the new kit wil be installed in key locations:

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