Emergency exercise in Welshpool
Emergency services flooded into Welshpool this week amid reports of a missing family.
Fire fighters could been seen at the canal in a rescue mission - but the public were reassured this was not a major incident but a large scale exercise.
All three 999 services and the Montgomeryshire Emergency Doctors turned out to take part in the multi agency exercise in the town centre on Tuesday evening.
About 40 people were involved. Welshpool Fire Service, which hosted the evening put out social media messages re-assuring the public that it was an excercise.
Those involved were told that the scenario had begun with a 'family incident' at a supermarket with reports of two missing people, one of them a child.
A spokesman from Welshpool Fire Service said emergency teams went looking for the missing people finding an 'adult' at the junction on the brook and canal basin a few hundred metres from the supermarket. The 'child' was found further down the brook.
Firefighters using an inflatable dinghy took to the water and other crews used specialist rescue methods to retrieve the 'adult'.
There were firefighters from Welshpool, Newtown, Llanfyllin and Llanfair Caereinion involved.
"All the services worked very well together and we look forward to further exercises," the spokesman said.
"It was a good exercise with a lot of positive feedback and some ideas on different methods and skills. A big thank you to all personnel involved for making it a success."
Photographers, George Price and Ian Francis took photos on the evening.
