The Upper Yarra SES and Victoria Police rescued two children who’d lost their way while swimming in the Yarra River earlier this week.
Victoria Police paged Upper Yarra SES to assist with a water rescue in the afternoon of Monday 26 January after the children hadn’t returned for over an hour.
Upper Yarra SES unit controller Hannah Brunton said bystanders who’d seen the children helped out with the search.
“Bystanders came up and said that they had seen some children looking a bit distressed in the water and told us what they were wearing and what they were floating on, so that gave us a bit more information,” she said.
Nine SES members searched for the children while Victoria Police members spoke with the parents of the children.
Luckily, they were found with their inflatable tubes and had suffered no harm during the search.
“While the police went to liaise with the parents, our members started walking up by the side of the riverbank to see if we could find people that fit that description.
“But luckily the police and the parents found the children before we did so that was good, it was very quick,” Ms Brunton said.
The Upper Yarra SES reminded people to always supervise their children when swimming in the Yarra River and that the river flows one way.
