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

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.

CALLOUT: Saturday afternoon. Family of 4 trapped by swollen stream in Wepre park. Evac across river by raft. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/2uwLbvLgsC

— NEWSAR (@newsar) 1 April 2017

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.

CALLOUT: Thanks to @nwpolice and Park Wardens, also family for pics. One little one thought it was great fun. 3/3 pic.twitter.com/0pXWeoEHCt

— NEWSAR (@newsar) 1 April 2017

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