The SARA Beachley Team was called out around 1330 to assist Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) with the evacuation of an injured climber who had fallen at Wintours Leap.  Initially we were asked to provide a rope rescue capability, but before long GFRS instead requested a boat extraction.  Accordingly we stood down our rope & land team and launched our two lifeboats.

The tide was quite low, so we used our smaller SARA Lifeboat 7 to get a basket stretcher to the firefighters on the bank.  Our lifeboat crew then worked with fire to move the casualty down the mud to the lifeboat, along with one of the HART team paramedics.  Once safely aboard they were both transferred to the larger SARA Lifeboat 1, which conveyed them down the Wye and round to the Beachley slipway.

At Beachley a combined SARA and Chepstow Coastguard team took the casualty up the slipway to the waiting ambulance.  And then set about cleaning off all the mud.

Another good multi-agency and multi-discipline callout; many thanks to all who responded.  We wish the casualty a speedy recovery.

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During the afternoon Gloucestershire Constabulary requested our help to search in and around a small lake at Walham area just north of Gloucester off Sandhurst Lane,.  Land search teams from SARA stations at Tewkesbury, Cotswolds and Beachley attended, along with a water search team from SARA Sharpness.  Many team members had already been on other callouts or fundraising events during the day.  Police and Fire search assets had also been involved.

After several hours of searching nothing had been found, so the search was stood down.  Many thanks to all who attended.

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This afternoon we were called to the Lydney area, to support Gloucestershire Constabulary.  Team members from SARA Beachley, Tewkesbury and Cotswolds attended. Thankfully the missing person was found safe outside our search area after a few hours, so we were stood down.

Many thanks to all who attended, including a search dog team from Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales who were en route to Lydney.

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We were called out to the Kemsey area today (Monday), to support West Mercia Police and West Mercia SAR in the search for a missing person; a continuation of the search at Malvern on Saturday. A land search team from SARA Wyre Forest attended.

This search was eventually stood down pending further information from the police.

Around 5.15pm, following a series of VIP lifeboat trips out onto the Severn, the crew were half way through washing down SARA Lifeboat 1 when a member of the public alerted them to a broken down jet ski. They notified the Coastguard and relaunched SARA 1. They were able to quickly locate the jet ski and tow it back to the slipway, everyone was safe and well.

Then at around 9:20pm, we were paged by the Coastguard to assist a (different) jet ski that had become stranded on the Hen and Chickens rocks close to Beachley.

It emerged that the rider had experienced engine problems on the water and had drifted with the tide onto a particularly hazardous section of rocks out of sight from the slipway. The falling tide had left the jet ski firmly stranded on the exposed rocks, making immediate recovery impossible.

Working alongside Chepstow Coastguard Rescue Team, the person was safely assisted across the thick mud back to shore safe and well.

The lifeboat crew then returned to SARA Beachley station around 1.15am and eventually when the water had risen sufficiently, SARA lifeboat 7 was launched and towed the jet ski back to the slipway. They finally left to go home around 3.30am, happy to have had a good outcome.

Well done all concerned.

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We were called out to the Malvern area this afternoon, to support West Mercia Police and Longtown Mountain Rescue in the search for a missing person.

The search was suspended in the early evening with nothing having been found.

The SARA Land Search Team was called out around 9am this morning, to support Gloucestershire Police with the search for a high-risk missing person in the Cirencester area.

Team members from our stations at Tewkesbury and Beachley, as well as SARA Cotswolds which is in Cirencester were responding, along with colleagues from neighbouring Wiltshire Search and Rescue, when the missing person was located safe.

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