Sunday session brings coastal emergency services together
Volunteers from Exmouth's RNLI lifeboat crew, shore crew, RNLI lifeguards, HM Coastguard and South West Ambulance Service paramedics spent Sunday morning on Exmouth beach, with the help of actors, training for emergencies.
The planned session came just 36 hours after a real-life emergency in which a 16 year-old girl crashed from cliffs just a mile away onto the beach below, after rocks crumbled following a period of intense heat. She's still in hospital with a suspected broken back.
Six simulated "casualties" were transported to Pole Sands, off Exmouth, where they were deemed to be in difficulty. Once they'd launched a flare, lifeboat crew were page, the lifeboat launched to rescue and treat them for their mocked-up injuries.
Crew volunteer Dr Chris Marsh says: "It's really useful it the event that we do have a real-life emergency to understand the issues that other agencies have to deal with."
Read more about how the RNLI helped the injured girl at Orcombe Point: http://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/exmouth-cliff-crumbled-under-16-year-old-girls-feet/
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