SARA's land search and mountain rescue team from Beachley was called out on Friday 3rd April at 11.50pm by Gloucestershire police to assist in searching for a missing woman in the Wotton under Edge area of Gloucestershire.  

Teams from Beachley and Tewkesbury were deployed, while still retaining crew back in their local areas to cover the lifeboats if needed elsewhere.  

The search teams were briefed by Gloucestershire police search specialists and deployed to various areas around Wooton under Edge to search for a missing 20 year old female.?"SARA Search Control" called for the assistance of South Wales Search and Rescue Dogs Association (SARDA). 

At around 5am SARA called in fresh crews from its Beachley and Tewkesbury Stations to take over and assist the teams that had been out all night.

At this point "Search Control" also called in the Longtown Mountain Rescue team, based in Abergavenny, to assist. 

At around 11.30am on Sunday 5th April the missing woman was located. She had suffered injuries but was conscious and talking and, after receiving medical attention from paramedics, SARA and Longtown Mountain Rescue crews carried her out of the area to the waiting ambulance.  

After a debrief with police the teams returned to their stations/homes to clean all the equipment and put it away ready for the next callout. Beachley crews got back to station at around 2.30pm on Easter Sunday having been away for nearly 14 hours.  

The search involved more than 30 volunteers in total.?For more information about SARA see http://www.sara-rescue.org.uk">www.sara-rescue.org.uk

Picture courtesy of Luke Lewis