TWO children are lucky to be alive after climbing on an electricity pylon at Waltham.
The 13-year-old girl, and a boy, whose age is not known, eventually climbed down from the structure - which supports power lines carrying 132,000 volts of electricity - and were taken home by police.
It happened on Monday, and Northern Powergrid, the electricity distributor for the North East, Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire, immediately responded to a call from the police and a rapid dispatch engineer was sent to the scene.
Paul Norton, Head of Safety at Northern Powergrid said: "The two youngsters climbing the pylon are so lucky to be alive. They could easily have come into contact with live equipment carrying thousands of volts of electricity, or they could have fallen.
"We ask that parents and guardians do what they can to advise their youngsters of the potential dangers of coming into contact with electricity."
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Full story in tomorrow's Grimsby Telegraph.
