At 8.54pm, the agencies were tasked to a second incident by the HM Coastguard, this time at the southern end of Whitley Bay. It was reported that another person was in crisis in the sea.

Arson is suspected in a fire that started Tuesday morning at a boarded-up home long known as a nuisance house in the South Bay. The fire started around 6:30 a.m. at 5154 Mariner Dr. in the Ocean ...

At 8.54pm, the agencies were tasked to a second incident by the HM Coastguard, this time at the southern end of Whitley Bay. It was reported that another person was in crisis in the sea.