A seven-year-old who fell from Whitley Bay promenade was taken to hospital during a busy bank holiday weekend for emergency services at the coast.
The RNLI, Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade (TVLB) and the North East Ambulance Service were called to Whitley Bay beach at around 10.30am on Saturday.
A seven-year-old boy, who had been cycling along the promenade, had fallen off and onto rocks below.
The emergency teams helped to rescue the boy from the beach and he was taken by ambulance to the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSEC) in Cramlington.
A spokesperson for the North East Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 10.23am on Saturday, May 25 to a patient that had fallen from the promenade at Whitley Bay onto some rocks below.
"We dispatched a double-crewed ambulance and one of our Hazardous Area Response Teams and we transported a seven-year-old boy to NSEC hospital with non-life threatening injuries."
The call out was one of four made to the TVLB within 17 hours across Friday night and Saturday morning.
Just before 7pm on Friday, the brigade was called to help Northumbria Police with a possible casualty at Cullercoats Bay.
But when the crew arrived at the scene a few minutes later, the person was already in the care of the police and they were stood down.
A few hours later, just after 10pm, the TVLB was paged by the Coastguard to assist paramedics after a person suffered a head injury on a boat on the Tyne.
The brigade went to the boat on the Newcastle Quayside and helped the injured person get to shore safely.
During this call out, the ambulance services and TVLB were made aware of somebody else on board the boat who was potentially suffering anaphylactic shock as a result of a nut allergy.
They were assessed at the scene and it was decided that they were safe and well.
