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<\/p>\nThe fire service attended the incident at the Waterworks in North Belfast<\/p>\n
A sign warning people of the dangers of the soft silt at the Waterworks<\/p>\n
The fire service rescued a child who had got stuck in “dangerous” silt in a North Belfast<\/a> park.<\/p>\n The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service were called to the Waterworks off Antrim Road<\/a> at 8.39pm on Thursday, August 20, following reports that a child had got stuck in the mud.<\/p>\n An appliance from Whitla and one from Westland Fire Station<\/a> attended the scene along with a specialist rescue team.<\/p>\n Footprints in the silt at the Waterworks<\/p>\n Over the past few weeks a section of the water at the waterworks has dried up. It is understood that a football was kicked onto this area and the child had got stuck when going to retreive it.<\/p>\n Signs have been put up on fencing warning people that the silt that has been revealed is soft and could be dangerous.<\/p>\n The child was quickly rescued by firefighters upon their arrival.<\/p>\n The Waterworks in North Belfast<\/p>\n A NIFRS spokesperson said: “Firefighters were called to reports of a casualty stuck in mud on Cavehill Road, Fortwilliam, Belfast. Firefighters used specialist rescue equipment to rescue the casualty. The incident was dealt with by 9.06pm.”<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage <\/strong>here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fire service attended the incident at the Waterworks in North Belfast A sign warning people of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[88227,7916,78693,1144,204886,16,15],"class_list":["post-1162162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-antrim-road","tag-nifrs","tag-north-belfast","tag-northern-ireland","tag-northern-ireland-water","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117136454286131442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Footprints](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-21-at-161750-1jpeg.jpg\")
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