The team was put on standby at 14.10 and soon deployed afterwards to search for a missing male in the South of the island. Olivia with search dog Mop with Ben Scott and Mal Stewart navigating arrived quickly and started searching large areas of open hillside.
Jim with search dog Ruby along with Ffinlo Williams and Will Heap started to trail and soon picked up the scent. The team were initially searching alongside the Police and the Isle of Man Coastguard soon joined by Civil Defence.
While Ruby was trailing up the steep hillside the search teams were joined by the Coastguard Helicopter who started following Ruby’s direction of travel. Flying on just ahead they then located the misper and the teams of the Police, Coastguard, Civil Defence and the helicopter helped extract the casualty.
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