Major river alert (From Tivyside Advertiser)

Major river alert

9:25am Monday 26th July 2010

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The emergency services swung into action in Cardigan at the weekend after a report of a person falling into the River Teifi.

Milford Haven Coastguards received a call from Cardigan Police at 18.43pm on Saturday reporting a person falling off the back of a boat into the water near the Quay Street car park.

The two Cardigan RNLI crafts were launched at Poppit Sands and made a thorough search of the area, Gwbert and Penrhyn Coastguards were mobilized, fire appliances, police and ambulance crews attended at the scene and a Sea King helicopter at RAF Chivenor in Devon was put on standby.

After it was ascertained that the incident was a false alarm with good intent a spokesman for HM Coastguard said: “We welcome calls of this nature if people genuinely believe that there is an emergency.”

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