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Incident No: 92 & 93 2018

Incident No: 92

Date: 9 June 2018
Time: 20.13hrs
Location: South Shields

Incident No: 93
Date: 16 June 2018
Time: 19.46hrs
Location: Morpeth area

Northumbria Police requested support from Mountain Rescue to assist in locating two high risk missing persons. Sarloc Rescue and PhoneFind were both used. Prior to a response being received to the text message, the Police located the missing persons.

Both incidents involved 1 Team member for 3.5 hours and 15 minutes respectively.

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Incident No: 15 2018

Date: 18 February 2018
Time: 13:37hrs
Location: Hartburn, near Morpeth

An end to a busy week for the #MountainRescue teams in #Northumberland.

North of Tyne MRT and ourselves were called out yesterday afternoon to assist the North East Ambulance Service and other agencies involved in an incident near Hartburn. The technical rope rescue skills of the MRTs were requested to help access a young child who had fallen 40 feet down a steep/vertical bank to the riverside.

Thankfully whilst en-route we were notified that an alternative route into the child’s location had been found and that the child had only suffered minor injuries. The teams were duly stood down.

The incident involved 21 Team members for 25 minutes.

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Multi-Agency Training

Persons reported struggling in the River Wansbeck. A group of young males and females had been drinking all day in Morpeth and after leaving one of the pubs, thought it would be a good idea to take two of the rowing boats, which had been locked up for the night, out onto the river. An eye witness reported seeing the group capsize both of the boats.

That was the scenario which faced a multi-agency response last night. Northumberland Fire & Rescue Service, the Coastguard and Mountain Rescue were involved in agreeing and implementing an effective search plan to locate the missing persons. Swiftwater and bankside teams, all in appropriate PPE, a Mountain Rescue search dog team were swiftly deployed by the three agencies, and all the casualties were located, treated and evacuated within an hour and a half.

A great evening working alongside our colleagues in the Fire Service and Coastguard. Much learning for all involved, which will hold us in good stead for the real thing!

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Co-located incident command, working out of our ‘dinky’ trailer
Blue lights everywhere you looked
Searching river right, downstream of main road bridge in Morpeth
Tricky searching along the flood defences
One of the Fire Service’s Swiftwater team vehicles
Incident control at work
Job done, time for a hot debrief
Back to base to sort the kit and clean and dry the dry suits
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*** Incident No.66 ***

Thursday 15 December, 14.37hrs

Yesterday afternoon the Team along with North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team responded to a request from Northumbria Police to assist in the search for a missing male from the Morpeth area. The male in his early 50s had been missing since Monday.

The search in and around a wooded area in North Northumberland led to a body being located. A sad end for all concerned.

Our thoughts go out to the man’s family and friends at this difficult time.

The incident involved 20 Team members and one Search Dog for 6 hours 30 minutes.

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*** Incident No.58 ***

Tuesday 4 October 2016, 21.49hrs

Northumbria Police requested the assistance of North of Tyne MRT and ourselves in a search for a missing person from Rothbury in Northumberland. The missing person was last seen in Morpeth earlier in the afternoon.

Thankfully as our Incident Controllers were travelling to liaise with the Police Search Adviser, the missing person was located safe and well.

The incident involved 4 Team members for 15 minutes.

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*** Incident No.41 ***

At just before 11.00hrs today, Northumbria Police requested mountain rescues assistance in the search for Lloyd Neale in the Morpeth area. Ourselves and North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team were involved, alongside the swiftwater team from Northumberland Fire & Rescue Service.

Whilst the terrain wasn’t hilly the undergrowth made for some challenging searching. The search has been stood down for this evening whilst the Police undertake further investigations.

The incident involved 23 members for 8 hours.

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