Search

The team have been searching for an 86-year old lady tonight, missing since 5pm from the Beach Gardens area.
A quick assessment rated the casualty as 'Urgent Respose' and so the full team (BURT) was deployed wearing full PPE and following a carefully worked plan based on the casualty's habits, ability and likely movements.  Thankfully the lady was found near Ocean Bay shortly before 9pm.
Fortunately this was just a training exercise in search management and there was no casualty.  But in every other sense the operation was carried out as if it was a real life scenario.  Without proper management or planning a search can very quickly become inefficient and non-productive, and having had two large searches in recent weeks we need to make sure we're on top of the game.