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A man was rescued by emergency crews after he fell into the Yarrowee River and struck his head on Thursday night.
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It’s believed he was kicking a football with a child before the accident near the White Flat Recreation Reserve about 9.10pm.
Ballarat City firefighters used a ladder platform to extract the man on a stretcher before he was taken to hospital with big lacerations to his head.
The rescue operation lasted about an hour, with paramedics stabilising the patient at the scene.