Busy few weeks for Beer Coastguards

Beer Coastguards have had a busy few weeks, including four call-outs over a three-day period. 

On Thursday, March 31, three volunteers from the Beer team travelled to North Devon to assist for 12 hours in the third day of a major multi-agency search.

On Wednesday, April 6 the coastguards were tasked to assist police in a search for a missing person, but were stood down just after arriving on the scene has the person had been found. 

On Wednesday, April 13, the team joined Exmouth Coastguards to again assist the police with a search and the casualty was eventually found safe. 

The first call on Thursday, April 14 came at 8.49pm when the team from Beer joined Exmouth and Dawlish coastguards and the Exmouth lifeboat in another search with the police which resulted with the casualty once again being found safe. 

On arriving back to Beer, the coastguards were tasked to another missing person at 11.18pm, this time work with Exmouth and Berry Head coastguards and Exmouth lifeboat. After more than four hours searching, nothing was found.

A busy week was rounded off on Friday, April 15 when the coastguards assisted the South Western Ambulance Service with a medical incident at Jacobs Ladder beach, in Sidmouth. 

The casualty was taken to the ambulance for onward treatment at hospital.