A woman who drowned after getting stuck headfirst in sea defence rocks might have been saved if the ambulance service had alerted the fire service more quickly, a coroner has said. Saffron Cole-Nottage, 32, was walking the family dog with her daughteron the seafront in their home town of Lowestoft, Suffolk, when she fell as the tide was coming in on 2 February 2025. A girl called 999 at 7.52pm and within the first 30 seconds of the call explained to an ambulance service call handler that Cole-Nottage was “caught head down in the rock” by the seafront. At 7.57pm and 7.58pm the caller made reference to Cole-Nottage “screaming”, before stating a minute later that she was “in the water now”. Suffolk fire and rescue service was the last of the four emergency services to be notified, with the first communication to them being at 8.04pm.…