A rescue operation was launched at Goolawah Beach in Crescent Head on the NSW north coast on Wednesday after multiple people were struck by a large wave and swept off their feet and at least one person taken to hospital.
The NSW Ambulance Service was called to the location at around 12:30PM after receiving reports that 14 people had been struck by a large surge of water surrounding a rockpool and knocked over.
The Westpac Rescue helicopter was launched to assist in the operation with one person stuck on a plateau along the water line before being rescued by paramedics and taken to hospital in an ambulance.
A spokesperson for the NSW Ambulance Service told the Huffington Post Australia that ambulance officers on the scene treated up to 9 patients for injuries ranging from lacerations to the head, cuts, abrasions and a possible broken collarbone.
Man with suspected broken collarbone the last person to be loaded into ambulance #CrescentHead@macleayarguspic.twitter.com/19Dmx8pulh
— Lachie Leeming (@LeemingLachie) January 4, 2017
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