Two lifeboats and a team of Coastguards from Burnham-On-Sea were called out on Friday evening (August 22nd) to search for a missing person at West Huntspill.
Both Burnham RNLI’s lifeboats, ‘Staines Whitfield’ and ‘Puffin’, were launched at 9.57pm from the beach (pictured) after a 55 year-old female went missing along the banks of the River Parrett in the vicinity of Huntspill Sluice.
Coastguards searched a large area of marshland alongside the river while the lifeboats scoured the water, with the aid of a white parachute flare to help visibilty, for any sign of the person.
However, the search was called off at 10.35pm when the lady was found safe by local police in nearby Alstone Road in a distressed state.
Before returning to the jetty, the Burnham lifeboat crews stoodby a grounded yacht – as first reported by Burnham-On-Sea.com here earlier in the day – while it refloated on the incoming tide, before escorting it to its berth at Combwich.
Both lifeboats eventually returned to Burnham slipway for recovery by the shore crew.
