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Missing Man (not) in the Dyfi Forest

14/11/2015

 
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At around 5:30 p.m.  call-handlers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team were made aware of a 41 year old man, missing in the Dyfi forest following the Wales Rally GB stage earlier in the day.

The man, from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, was attending the rally with a group of friends. He was last seen by the other members of his party at 7:00 a.m. as they made their way to spectator viewing positions within the forest, and the plan was to meet-up back at the car at 1:00 p.m. When the man failed to make this rendezvous and could not be raised by phone, his friends started searching the woodland themselves, and ultimately the police were informed.

With very difficult weather conditions and darkness fallen, assistance was sought from the Aberdyfi Team. Rescue volunteers rendezvoused at Aberangell on the edge of the forest and, with air support ruled out by the bad weather, were confronted by a large search area with only scant and sometimes conflicting information about the missing man to work on. Having drawn up a list of potential scenarios to explain the man's disappearance, the Team started searching likely areas of the forest while Officers from North Wales Police followed up some of the other leads, and it was their work that ultimately led to the unraveling of this particular puzzle. Working on the possibility that the man had left the forest and gone home, Officers contacted local taxi firms to see if they had driven anyone fitting the man's description. With a few calls they found a local firm who had indeed given the man a ride....all the way to Wiltshire. At around 10:00 p.m., with checks made in Wiltshire to confirm that this was indeed the missing man, the search teams were pulled back from the forest and the Team was stood down.

Lost Walkers on Cadair Idris

11/11/2015

 
At around 9:45 a.m. volunteers from Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team were made aware of two walkers lost on the summit of Cadair Idris.

Climbing the mountain via the Minffordd path, the two men had spent the night in the summit shelter.  On setting out the following morning they had become disorientated in the extremely poor weather conditions, and aware of the proximity of cliff-faces in their area, had sought assistance.

To establish the position of the walkers, Team call-handlers used the SARLOC protocol which enables the casualties smart-phone to be quizzed for its location. With this information to hand, call-handlers were able to advise the walkers about the best route off the mountain.

At about 11:00 a.m. the men got back in contact, being unable to proceed because of the amount of water flowing through the Llyn Gafr outfall. Team volunteers were dispatched up the hill and escorted the men down off the mountain.

Double Call-Out Sunday

1/11/2015

 
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At around 3:30 p.m. the Team received a request from the Welsh Ambulance Service (WAS) to assist in the extraction of a 60 year old man who had fallen following a suspected stroke at Dolgoch falls. No sooner had the call-out been sent than the news came ​that the Ambulance crew had managed to get the man out, and the Team was stood down.

At about 4:00 p.m. the Team received a second request from WAS, this time to assist with a 64 year old woman with a broken leg on the hills above Abergwynant.  A Paramedic was on-scene when volunteers arrived, and the Team provided a vacuum splint before extracting the casualty by wheeled stretcher to the nearby ambulance. 


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