Fire crews from Whitby assisted an elderly man in the town on Saturday morning.
They were called to Lockton Road in the Castle Park area, just after 9am.
Officers gained entry to a property for carers outside to reach an elderly male who had fallen.
Firefighters used a lock-snapper and then made the property secure again.
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Two eye-catching murals celebrating local history and wildlife have been unveiled in Bridlington as part of a £125,000 council regeneration project.
An East Riding councillor has called on the region's combined authority mayor to ditch plans for a visitor levy, warning that taxing tourists could sabotage ongoing bids by local towns to become the UK's next Town of Culture.
Calls are intensifying for better protection of the Gypsey Race in Bridlington, as local councillors warn that ongoing sewage discharges threaten one of East Yorkshire's rare chalk streams.
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