Just 10 minutes into the Wales v England rugby game, Tenby RNLI volunteers tore themselves away from the TV, to respond to an incident involving a 94-year-old woman with a suspected broken leg.

Many of the volunteers were celebrating a fellow crew member’s wedding at the resort’s Giltar Hotel, when the call for help came.

Tenby’s all-weather RNLI lifeboat was launched shortly after 8.30 pm on Saturday with two paramedics aboard. Milford Haven coastguard had received a call stating that an elderly lady had fallen on Caldey Island and required medical assistance.

The RNLI lifeboat soon reached the location and dropped off the two paramedics along with three RNLI volunteer crew members. They were escorted to the lady’s house by car.

Once on scene, the paramedics assessed the lady and suspected she had broken her femur. It was decided that the safest and most comfortable mode of getting her to hospital would be by air, so RAF Rescue Helicopter 169 was requested. The casualty was made comfortable before being placed onto a stretcher and taken by car up to the landing pad at the lighthouse.

As the paramedics and lifeboat crew were arriving at the lighthouse, the helicopter was landing. The casualty was taken straight aboard the helicopter and flown to Morrison Hospital in Swansea.

Ben James, Tenby Lifeboat press officer and volunteer crew member, said: “RNLI volunteers never know when the call for help may come, but are always ready to respond to their pagers. The Tenby crew were just settled down to the game, many of them at a wedding. We still had a great turnout of volunteers ready to respond - that’s what you sign up to as an RNLI volunteer. If someone needs your help, you don’t think about anything else, you just go. I’m just glad I managed to press record before dashing out through the door on this particular occasion!”