Incidents

We are tasked by the emergency services, including HM Coastguaard, Fire & Rescue, Police and the Ambulance Services. Our teams are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Below are the callouts that we have attended.

• Fairford 01-11-24

  The Land Search Team was called out to Fairford by Gloucestershire Police shortly after 9am, on reports of a high risk missing person who had disappeared during the night. Fortunately she was found safe and well by the Police whilst teams were starting to deploy, and we were stood down before 10am.

  1st Nov 2024

  1st Nov 2024

• Hatherley, Cheltenham 30-10-24

  The land team were called out by Gloucestershire Police at 1230, to reports of a high risk missing teenager in the Hatherley area of Cheltenham.

  Thankfully she was found safe around 1300 and the SARA teams were stood down.

  30th Oct 2024

  30th Oct 2024

• Beachley 28-10-24 (again)

  A couple of hours after rescuing a motor cruiser, around 7pm, the Beachley lifeboat crew were tasked to stand by, whilst Gwent Police attended a vulnerable person on the M48 Severn Bridge.
  We stood by, ready to launch, until stood down by the police around 9.30pm.

  28th Oct 2024

  28th Oct 2024

• Beachley 28-10-24

  The SARA Beachley Lifeboat crew were called out around 4pm. A 22ft motor cruiser had. engine failure and was adrift under the M48 Severn Bridge heading moving towards Lydney, and was concerned that it was too deep to anchor.
  She was taken under tow by SARA Lifeboat 1 and taken back to Beachley, where she was handed over to HM Coastguard Chepstow.

  28th Oct 2024

  28th Oct 2024

• Brockworth 26 & 27-10-24

  We were called out by Gloucestershire Police on Sat morning 26 Oct. We were stood down with nothing found.
  The. search was resumed on Sun 27 Oct. As teams were assembling the missing lady was found by the Police some distance away. One of our paramedic members went and assisted the police until an ambulance arrived,

  27th Oct 2024

  27th Oct 2024

• Beachley River Wye 16-09-24 (sheep)

  Shortly after 1800 SARA Lifeboat 3 was launched to the River Wye. A sheep was stuck in the mud and there was concern that people may endanger themselves trying to rescue it. Sadly by the time SARA 3 arrived the sheep was deceased. The crew moved it to an area of the bank where the farmer could retrieve it.

  16th Oct 2024

  16th Oct 2024

• Quarry Bank, Brierley Hill 10-10-24

  We were called out by West Midlands Police to assist with a missing person in the area of Quarry Bank, Brierley Hill, along with Staffordshire Search and Rescue. SARA WF team members responded and conducted an initial search, together with members of Staffs SAR; towards the end of this search the missing person was located safe and well by a member of the public in an area close by. She was checked over by a Staffs SAR Cas Carer in our team, and then taken to hospital.

  10th Oct 2024

  10th Oct 2024

• Tintern 05-10-24

  We were called out around 1620 to a report of a person on rocks opposite Old Station Tintern. It was an elderly man, who had been in the river and had been pulled out by some walkers, but the person was stuck below dense vegetation.

  A member of the SARA team made their way to the casualty through the steep woods. Meanwhile, other SARA personnel launched our small boat Rescue 5 at Brockweir. We supported Glos Fire & Rescue, Ambulance HART and Gwent Police to get him transported safely across the river on a fire sled to the field next to the Old Station.

  From there he was evacuated by Welsh Air Ambulance. Coastguard Helicopter 187 also attended but the area was not suitable for winching.

  Many thanks to all who responded

  5th Oct 2024

  5th Oct 2024

• River Severn M4 SSC 04-10-24

  The SARA Beachley Lifeboat crew were called out. around 1400, after reports that a person had entered the water at the POW Bridge. SARA Lifeboat 3 ‘Swift and Bold’ launched at 1415 to attend the scene.

  Our lifeboat crew worked on a very big search south of the M4 POW Bridge / Second Severn Crossing at low tide, alongside 3 helicopters from National Police Air Service (NPAS) and Coastguard, lifeboats from RNLI Portishead and Barry Dock RNLI, and HM Coastguard Chepstow.

  We were stood down at 1800 with nothing found.

  4th Oct 2024

  4th Oct 2024

• Newport River Usk 27-09-24

  The crew were paged by Gwent Police late in the evening to a person at risk in a bridge over the River Usk at Newport.

  As SARA Lifeboat 14 was being launched the person did enter the water, and they made best speed to the person’s last known position, supported by Chepstow Coastguard and SARA personnel on the bridge.

  The crew successfully located and brought the person aboard, providing medical assistance before handing over to the ambulance service.

  27th Sep 2024

  27th Sep 2024