Posted: Sat 1st Apr 2017

Wepre Park call out for North East Wales Search and Rescue team

News and Info from Deeside, Flintshire, North Wales
This article is old - Published: Saturday, Apr 1st, 2017

Volunteers from NEWSAR, the Mold based North East Wales Search and Rescue Team along with park rangers and officers from North Wales Police were called into action today in Wepre Park after a family got into difficulties.

Two adults and two children became trapped between a steep muddy slope which they couldn’t climb and a swollen stream in the Connah’s Quay park.

NEWSAR team members used their rescue raft to ferry the family across the stream to safety.

Despite the water not being deep it was fast flowing and the family were praised by rescuers for raising the alarm, a post on the NEWSAR Facebook page said;

We used our rescue raft to ferry them across to safety. The water was not deep, but fast flowing with serious downstream entrapment hazards, so the family made the absolutely correct decision not to try to wade across unassisted. Many drownings have happened in less water than this.

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