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Feb 15 2012
Incident 21/2012
At 21.37hrs this wet and cold evening, with the majority of the team membership on our routine Wednesday night exercise, deployed throughout the moorland valley of Cadshaw Brook, the team was paged by a GMP Missing Person Search Manager to assist with a developing search for a missing 80 year old woman in the Eccles, Manchester, area.
The team was immediately recalled from the exercise to assemble at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ.
At the same time our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon and Steve Fletcher who had been at our Base / HQ at the time of the call out, immediately started formulating a search strategy and preparing search area mapping.
With all team members assembled at our Base / HQ from the exercise, the team in five vehicles plus our SAR Boat and Control Trailer, departed at 22.45hrs arriving at Eccles Police Station at 23.00hrs.
Here in the company of attending Police Officers, a thorough briefing from the Police took place.
Team members gather for the Police search briefing at Eccles police station
Given the concern for the well being of this missing woman, and due to the time elapsed since she was reported missing, the help of our colleagues at Rossendale and Pendle MRT was also urgently sought. (Thanks for your tremendous and immediate support)
Planning the initial search areas
Searches took place on the Bridgewater Canal itself, utilising the teams SAR Boat, and all routes the missing woman may have taken to return to her home address.
Team members prepare the boat for a search of the canal banking
Meanwhile all five Bolton MRT team vehicles and attending Police Vehicles searched the surrounding roads, and parts of the Trafford Park Industrial area.
In the early hours of the morning the GMP Air Support Unit Helicopter from the NWAOG (Police) arrived on scene, spending almost an hour carrying out extensive searches of the Bridgewater Canal corridor, parts of the adjacent Manchester Ship Canal, the Trafford Centre and Trafford Park, plus around the woman’s home address in Eccles.
By 03.00hrs in the morning, all MRT search area taskings had been completed, and with GMP search efforts and enquiries continuing, the MRT search operation was stood down.
The last Bolton MRT members departed the area at 03.20hrs.
UPDATE AS AT THURSDAY 16TH FEBRUARY;
Throughout the day GMP search efforts continued, including the Underwater Search Unit conducting further searches of the Bridgewater Canal, and Police Officers carrying out further searches in the area the woman had last been seen.
The woman was ultimately located many miles away in the Whalley Range area of Manchester, thankfully alive though cold.
The following resources were deployed on this search incident;
By admin • 2012, Incident • Tags: SearchLowland