Jordan North rescued by RNLI after seeing dog struggling in the water
This morning on Capital Breakfast Jordan North described the moment he was rescued by Chiswick RNLI after he saw a dog struggling in the water last night and went to save it.
It was around 5pm on Monday evening that a member of the public raised the alarm after Jordan, who was out for a run, stepped from a pontoon into the water to help the struggling labrador.
Despite the strong current, he managed to grab the dog by the collar. The dog, exhausted from fighting the current, couldn’t walk and needed assistance. Jordan went to rescue the dog but ended up stuck on a pontoon in the middle of the Thames and ended up being rescued by Chiswick RNLI.
Jordan described what happened to fellow co-hosts Sian and Chris, saying there was a woman looking stressed and a lot of people around who told him there was a dog struggling in the water.
“So I’m trying to grab the dog at the end of the jetty but it’s shut and it’s like a 6ft gate,” he said. “There’s a lad trying to climb over and he’s going “my knee, my knee!” My knees not that bad, so I climb over. I go down to the jetties, it’s pitch black, and the dogs in the water.
“I’m trying to grab the dog at the end of the jetty, I’ve got my phone flashing. I’m going “here boy, here boy, here boy, come on, here boy”. And he’s trying to get to me, this dog, right? And every time I can just about grab him, the currents, taking him. I’m going, I can’t go in. Cannot go in.
“I walk across this buoy, and I manage to grab the dog, okay? And I’m get him up and pull him up by the collar, and then he’s struggling, and then he falls back in. So I get him.
“The dog’s legs have gone, so he can’t get up, because he’s so tired, so tired, he’s been fighting this current for about 10 minutes. Oh, he’s panting, and I’m kind of going, “it’s all right, it’s all right.” So then we can’t get off this thing that I’m floating on in the middle of the Thames.”
The weight of the dog on Jordan’s legs made them go dead and he was worried he might fall in the water so called for someone to get the coast guard.
Once the boat arrived, they managed to get the dog onto it and Jordan was then able to jump aboard too.
Continuing, he said: “A big thank you and a massive shout out to RNLI Chiswick who came and rescued me because I was getting a bit panicky.
“I was getting a bit nervy as well because I thought my legs are going to go, I can’t hold on much longer, so they got there just in time.
“The real heroes here are the RNLI who came out and got me, put a blanket round me. They’re the heroes.”
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Watch as @ChiswickRNLI rescue @CapitalOfficial Breakfast host Jordan North when he got into trouble in the River Thames after he went to rescue a dog struggling in the water.
Jordan called the crew ‘the real heroes’ after they brought him and the pup to safety 💙 pic.twitter.com/oEenV3CxIu
— RNLI (@RNLI) December 17, 2024
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