Woodbridge Fire Station pumping operation restores healthy oxygen levels to fishing lake

At-risk marine wildlife received a helping hand from Suffolk firefighters, who helped restore a lake to healthy oxygen levels.

Woodbridge Fire Station deployed a crew to a fishing lake at approximately 10am this morning, to assist with a water pumping operation.

This was necessary, a fire service spokesman explained, because of the oxygen levels had dropped in the lake, placing the fish at risk.

The crew used a light portable pump, a ground monitor, lengths of hose, and a dividing breach to pump the water back into the lake, thereby adding oxygen.

Firefighters then remained on the scene, until the oxygen levels within the lake had improved.