Sunday of the Bank Holiday weekend started quiet for the team....
The local knowledge training team ('patrol' for the old school) reported nothing, except for a win for the pink ferret at the Studland Country Fair and a chat with the lifeboat Coxwain about lifeboat week.
But then at 5pm, it all kicked off: Firstly a report of a jogger en route from Lulworth to Swanage, overdue by 3 hours. Initially an IRT job, this soon developed into a BURT (full team) search along the cliffs to the west of the lighthouse. Teams further along at St Albans, Kimmeridge and Lulworth got involved too.
Search Teams deployed on the higher and lower paths westwards from the lighthouse.
(Photo Courtesy Of: The Swanage Shadow)
At 7.30pm just as the team was given the nod to stand down (casualty reported safe and well in Swanage) another walker in the same area reported two missing 16 year old males, missing for approximately an hour an a half. The full team regrouped and set about another search; again all ended safe and well. Finally the IRT have been out again tonight, responding to reports of unidentified red and white lights on the cliff. A thorough search revealed two hikers, bedding down in bivvy bags, using torches to read their maps and guides for tomorrow. Again, both safe and well, but both thankful that someone had seen their lights and had bothered to call 999 just in case.
I wonder what Bank Holiday Monday will bring?
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