The drama unfolded this afternoon with paramedics rushing to the scene.
Four children were rushed to hospital after crashing through ice while playing on a frozen pond. Police revealed this evening that the youngsters suffered cardiac arrests as a result of plunging into the below-zero water and are now on life support, our sister title The Mirror reports. They were pulled from the lake after emergency service crews raced to the scene this afternoon. Rescue teams also searched the freezing lake for other survivors on a day which brought snowfall.
Several police cars, ambulances and fire crews were parked in the area's Fordbridge Road, onto the Stonebridge Crescent estate. West Midlands Ambulance Service tactical commander Cameron McVittie added that the four children were in cardiac arrest when they came out of the water, and are currently on life support. He said: "There's no clinical updates at this stage, as stated they were all in a critical condition on arrival at hospital.
"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."
He said: “When officers first arrived on the scene, they went into the lake, together with fire and ambulance colleagues. It was a combined effort of all officers going into the lake to try to rescue them.” The press conference heard the stricken officer is making a “full recovery” in hospital. Photos from the scene show search teams on a boat on the lake shining torches into the water.
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