2025 Callouts
11th Feb
At 10:06 the team received a call from the Police asking for support to continue a search for a missing person with severe dementia, around the Calstock area. This search was ongoing from the early hours of the morning with Tavistock and East Cornwall.
Shortly after members of the team deployed, a body was located in the river, and the team were stood down shortly after this sad news.
5th Feb
At 23:45 on Tuesday night, we were alerted to an ongoing search in North Devon, home of one of our sister teams - North Dartmoor Search and Rescue.
This was a large search for a missing female around the village of Ashreigney. Both North Dartmoor and Exmoor teams had spent the day searching areas around the village, and another of our sister teams, Tavistock SRT were due to search through the night.
We were were requested, along with Ashburton SRT to continue the search the following morning.
Arriving at 0600, our team set off to search open fields around the the village with no joy.
After 5 hours searching, and just as search dogs arrived from MRSDE, a member of the public came into the incident room to stay the she had been found.
Ashburton's team doctor, along with Police were dispatched to the location to assess her condition. Aside from being a bit cold, she was fine. She was then handed over to SWAST for further assessment.
A positive outcome a long way off our usual beaten track!
1st January
A 60yr old male had gone for morning walk on the moor near Shell Top, but as the heavy rain and mist came in, he realised he was lost. Rather than try and attempt to find his way, he made the right decision to call for help.
Devon & Cornwall Police sent a message to the missing person to identify his location. We then sent teams to him to bring him off the hill, who walked down with him to a waiting team Land Rover.
Other than being cold and wet, thankfully he was fine.
