Callout Sunday 24 – Monday 25 August 2025
Incident 19
23:25 – 00:45 and 08:43 – 09:34
22 Team Members
Agencies involved: NDSART, Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team – Tavistock, Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team – Plymouth, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Devon & Cornwall Police
NDSART were called by Devon & Cornwall Police and put on standby at 23:35 to reports of a missing person in the Fur Tor area, who was several hours overdue to rendezvous with friends.
After further information came through overnight, the team was stood down at 00:45. At the same time, DSRT – Tavistock put a small hill party on the ground at 02:40 to search the missing person’s intended route. With plans being discussed between the multiple agencies for the morning’s deployment in daylight.
An initial search party arrived at Fur Tor around 06:00 without locating the missing person enroute, so a full callout was initiated to carry out the deployments planned during the night with ourselves, DSRT – Tavistock and DSRT – Plymouth , alongside HM Coastguard.
A Coastguard helicopter was tasked to perform a search of the area, and was to then airlift teams from Willsworthy Range target butts to search specific areas. The Helicopter had just landed to pick up team members when we were informed the missing person had been located at 09:27 near Beardown Tors and was being escorted to the Police.
All teams were stood down at 09:34.
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