Cornwall Search and Rescue Team

Listed below are the incidents that we attended in 2004.

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* The average team members hours do not include training, open days and fund raising events.

Incident Number	Type	Date / Time	Details of Incident / Result	Duration	Persons Involved
1	Search	7th Jan 20:35	Male - Missing from Home Found Safe and Well	4 hours	20 - CRG Members Dog "Nelson"
2	Search	25th Jan 12:30	Female (67) - Missing from Home Found Hypothermic - Medivac to Hospital	10 hours	14 - CRG Members 12 - DRG Members (in sprt) Dog "Nelson" Police TAG / Helicopter
3	Search	31st Jan 11:35	Female (76) - Missing from Home Found - Deceased	7 hours	14 - CRG Members Police TAG/DOG
4	Search	3rd Feb 23:54	Male (19) - Missing from Home Team Stood Down - Found Deceased	20 mins	1 - CRG Member 1 - Police Search Dog
5	Search	8th Feb 17:15	Female (80) - Missing from Home Found Hypothermic - Medivac to Hospital	7 hours	14 - CRG Members Police TAG/Helicopter
6	Search	19th Feb 16:55	Female - Despondent missing Team on Standby - Stood down at 19:10	n/a	2 - CRG Controllers 20 - CRG Standby
7	Search	25th Feb 10:20	Male (65) - Missing from Home Despondent - Found Deceased	1.5 hours	10 - CRG Members 1 - Police Dog
8	Search	26th Feb 17:25	Reports of shouts for help in Cheesewring area of Bodmin Moor. Full search carried out in 6inch snow. Nothing Found. False Alarm. Good Intent. Stood Down 00:45	7 hours 20 mins	14 - CRG Members 1 - Police Dog 1 - Police TAG Team Police Helicopter
9	Rescue	26th Feb 21:20	CRG Members en-route to Incident 8 were flagged down by members of the public to assist with an incident involving a vehicle that had slid off the road. CRG members made scene safe and using our landrover pulled the vehicle to safety.	45 mins	4 - CRG Members
10	Search	23rd March 19:35	Female - Despondent missing from home Found by Police - CRG stood down whilst on route to Search RV Point.	1 hour	20 - CRG on route
11	Search	17th April 02:57	“Female in distress on the coastpath”. This was at a ridiculous hour and included an area five miles long over all types of terrain! As we went to investigate in one of the Land Rovers, we were stood down.	30 mins	2 - CRG Controllers Police Helicopter
12	Search	14th May 12:50	Initially a request for advice, police and CRG Controllers decided to task the team to search for a despondent female, 55. Further police enquiries indicated she was out of the county.	1 hour	10 - CRG Police Dog Coast Guard Team RNLI Life Boat
13	Stand By Cover	15th May	Members assisted Okehampton Section of DRG with the Ten Tors event providing extra Search and Rescue manpower.	17 hours	7 - CRG
14	Stand By Cover	16th May	Members assisted Okehampton Section of DRG with the Ten Tors event providing extra Search and Rescue manpower.	12 hours	7 - CRG
15	Stand By Cover	16th May	Members dealt with incidents arising from a stand-by search and rescue cover for a charity walk on the St. Michael’s Way in West Cornwall in aid of the MERLIN project.	9 hours	8 - CRG
16	Search	23rd May 00:15	Search for despondent male. Joint operation with ESART and DRG. Located deceased during second operational period.	13 hours	8 - CRG 7 - ESRT 12 - DRG Police Helicopter
17	Search	25th May 05:10	Female – missing from home. Joint operation with DRG. Misper treated by CRG members.	7 hours	8 - CRG 8 - DRG
18	Search Sticker	11th June 15:05	Male - On holiday, missing on walk. Concern for welfare due to medical history. Located - In Yorkshire! (yes up North)	4.5 hours	9 - CRG Police DOG
19	Search Bodmin	14th June 16:35	Search for male missing from home. Found in high probability area early in search.	20 mins	6 - CRG on-scene 8 - CRG en-route
20	Search Delabole Quarry	9th July 17:35	Male, fallen and injured in quarry? Found by police dog handler as first rescue vehicle arrived.	1.25 hours	4 - CRG on-scene 8 - CRG en-route Police Dog
21	Search Mount Edgcombe	18th July 11:20	Requested to assist two sections of DRG and the Coastguard to search for a despondent male.	1.25 hours	13 - CRG 10 - DRG
22	Search Hayle	18th July 12:30	Re-tasked to a call out in the Hayle and Penzance areas for missing male. Located safe and well.	7 hours	13 - CRG
23a	Search Camborne	28th July 21:30	Search for missing diabetic female	7 hours	14 - CRG Police Dog RAF Helicopter Police Helicopter
23b	Search Camborne	29th July 17:00	Continuation of above search with new information.	6 hours	13 - CRG
23c	Search Redruth	30th July 18:30	Continuation of above search. Completion of final search area. No Find	3 hours	12 - CRG
24	Search Perran Coombe	9th Aug 01:53	Male 74, failed to return home after evening walk. Located by Landrover Team. Landrover Evacuation.	6.5 hours	7 - CRG
25	MAJAX Rescue Boscastle Floods	16th Aug 01:53	Called to assist with search for elderly couple reported swept from car at Otterham Station - turned up safe.	1 hour	2 - CRG 1 - Helicopter Police
26	MAJAX Rescue Boscastle Floods	16th Aug 18:30	K82 tasked to join main evacuation on the east side of Boscastle where we assisted the fire brigade and helo crews in evacuating flooded properties. K81 also attended after the completion of incident 25. Due to the difficult access to this part of the village, CRG continued evacuating multiple casualties late into the evening.	7 hours	7 - CRG 7 - Helicopters Fire Police Ambulance all other emergency services
27	Flooding Hayle	17th Aug 21:00	Assisted persons trapped in rural parts of Hayle / St Ives as further flooding affected the county.	2 hours	5 - CRG
28	Cave Rescue Levant	21st Aug	Caller dialled 999 asking for Cave Rescue but call terminated before full details obtained. CRG Cave Rescue Team stood down en-route whilst controllers assessed incident with coastguard & police. HOAX.	1.5 hours	5 - CRG Police Coastguard
29	Search Goonhavern	4th Sept 01:15	Lady reported missing from home since 16:00. Previous history as MISPER. Hastey search conducted during darkness & team prepared for full callout at 07:00, however located at nearby farm at first light.	4.5 hours	5 - CRG
30	Search	14th Sept 15:45	Information Pending	5 hours	10 CRG
31	Search Cave Carn Brae	3rd Oct 10:30	Missing person believed to be possibly in an underground location in the Carn Brea area. Intensive search of rivers, tunnels, shafts and surface locations proved negative. Found outside search area several days later.	5 Hours	16 CRG
32	Search Bodmin Moor	7th Oct 21:30	Missing female in the Colliford Lake area. Located cold but well.	3 Hours	16 CRG
	Advice Bodmin	7th Oct 21:30	CRG Controllers contacted for advice regarding a missing person.	1 Hour	2 Controllers
33	Search Ponsanooth	24th Oct 13:00	Elderly female missing from home. Located by police in Falmouth as we were arriving.	3.5 Hours	14 CRG
	Animal Rescue Bodmin	26th Oct 15:00	We were contacted regarding a dog that had possibly fallen down a one of the many mineshafts in the Cheesewring area of the moor. Unfortunately, due to not having an exact location of the missing dog we were unable to effect a rescue and passed the call to the RSPCA and an animal rescue organisation.
34	Rescue Blackwater	7th Nov 18:10	Westcountry Ambulance Service (WAS) requested specialist rescue equipment and personnel to assist in the medical evacuation of a male casualty. Using a basket stretcher, casualty care and rope rescue equipment, CRG, WAS and Cornwall County Fire Brigade (CCFB) personnel successfully evacuated the casualty.	n/a	4 CRG Controllers 16 CRG on Standby
35	Search Penzance	10th Nov 20:10	Police contacted team controllers with reference to a vulnerable male casualty and we were requested to assemble the following morning. The male was located deceased by the police.	1 Hour 20 Minutes	CRG Controllers 8 CRG (Stand By)
36	Search Hayle	10th Nov 22:50	Team requested to locate a young male casualty believed to be in the Gwithian area. As team were starting to make toward, the casualty was located.	30 Minutes	9 CRG
37	Search Carloggas Downs	14th Nov 10:00	Male casualty believed to be in the Penwithick area. Search but no find.	5 Hours	15 CRG
38	Search Bodmin		Whilst training on Kit Hill, police control alerted us to multiple 999 calls reporting red flares on Eastmoor. Team members diverted to the scene and conducted a search of Fox Tor and located two Army Soldiers.	3.5 Hours	13 CRG
39	Search Carn Brae	26th Nov 20:30	Female 40, believed to be in the Carn Brae Hill / Redruth area failed to return. Found by Police in Torquay	5.5 Hours	14 CRG

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