Penlee Point fall: Boy, 15, praised for helping save girlpublished at 11:19 Greenwich Mean Time 20 November 2017
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
A teenage boy has been praised for his actions in helping rescue a girl who fell on to rocks and into water near Mousehole, in Cornwall.
The teenage girl is in hospital with severe injuries after falling 20ft on to rocks near Mousehole on Sunday afternoon. It's understood she hit rocks and ended up in shallow water.
Emergency services said the 15-year-old boy, who saw her fall at Penlee Point, raised the alarm before going into the sea to keep her above the water until help arrived.
Penlee Lifeboat coxswain Patch Harvey said the boy's actions "probably saved her life".
She was airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.