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BBC Article on Using a Photo to Locate a Casualty

Published by Jon Lynch on Fri 3rd Jun 2011Fri 3rd Jun 2011

A BBC News article about how a photo taken on a casualty’s phone enabled the team to locate them. This was the second rescue of the day and the middle of three in 24 hours. A Grough article on the rescue is available here. The story also featured in Saturday’s Telegraph.

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