A woman in her 20s and a two-year-old girl are in hospital in a stable condition.

Crews from three engines have been at the scene since 05:00 GMT.

The council says the road between the New Moor House crossroads and the Bridge of Aln is shut.

Firefighter Lindsay Bowling-Mowatt left a "list" of activities before she died from a brain tumour.

Three teenagers have died in two years after getting into trouble in the same stretch of water.

Residents had to leave their homes in Whitley Bay after a major gas pipeline was ruptured.

The 14-year-old's body was found in the River Tyne and the younger boy was rescued and taken to hospital.

UK fire services are donating thousands of pieces of kit to firefighters working in Ukraine.