{"id":44955,"date":"2014-07-14T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d62ada5b138dedc84101c261bdf10f24"},"modified":"2014-07-14T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T08:40:07","slug":"press-release-major-search-after-reports-of-cliff-drama-in-torquay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44955","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Major search after reports of cliff drama in Torquay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Brixham Coastguard received a call just after 2pm on Saturday 12 July 2014 from South West Ambulance Service who had been made aware that people were in trouble on cliffs at Meadfoot beach.<\/p>\n<p>With little information to go on, Brixham Coastguard sent the Torbay, Berry Head and Teignmouth Coastguard Rescue Teams to the scene, along with both Torbay <abbr title=\"Royal National Lifeboat Institution\">RNLI<\/abbr> lifeboats, Torbay Council patrol boat, police helicopter, Devon Air Ambulance, as well as police and ambulance crews.<\/p>\n<p>A thorough search of the area was carried out, but teams were stood down just after 5pm, when nothing was found.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Thornhill, Watch Manager at Brixham Coastguard, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This was a large scale, multi-agency search that lasted for around 3 hours. With the information we had been provided, we were extremely concerned for the people\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">However, nothing was found during the thorough search and units have since stood down. We now believe this to be a hoax. Hoax calls are wasteful and potentially life threatening \u2013 they tie up valuable search and rescue resources which may have been required elsewhere in a real lifesaving incident.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Police are continuing with their enquiries in relation to this incident.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1507\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Maritime and Coastguard Agency press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              023 8032 9401\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major search has taken place in Torquay after the Coastguard were told that two people had fallen from cliffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}