- Incident
- 26 in 2012
- Type
- Full Callout — Overdue
- Location
- Kells, Whitehaven
- Other Agencies
- Coastguard, Cumbria Police, Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs, RNLI
The team was called out to assist the Police with a search in the Kells area near Whitehaven for a missing male. Around 20 team members & 3 Search dogs attended along with the Coast Guard, St Bees lifeboat, Police & Police dogs unit. We stood down at around 2200. The male was found safe and well shortly after.
Incident started at 18:15 and ended at 22:30 making 4.3 hrs in total. There were 22 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NX 966 176 (altitude 64 m). Total rescuer hours: 95
