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Well, what a change in the weather wind and heavy cold showers. The day started off quite slowly, then a tree with limbs damaged by last nights wind needed attention which tied two of us up for a couple of hours, the tree was made safe but will need felling on Monday, no one injured all safe. I took one of the new guys out on a beach patrol as it was quiet in the office, on our return trip down the beach we were flagged down by the RNLI lifeguard on a quad bike looking for a lady with a Cocker spaniel the wife of a kite surfer who had suffered an injury. We found the lady sat in her car and delicately informed her she was needed on the beach. A while later RNLI informed us that a 999 call had been made and an ambulance was on the way, the paramedics and then the coastguard duly arrived. Oh I forgot, in between finding the lady and taking her to the beach the Police arrived lights blazing on what turned out to a HOAX call.  Wikipedia free to use The coincidences cont

And so it was at around 3pm today I was checking the car parks when I was flagged down by a visitor, it's usually bad news when someone flags us down, who told me that he had seen smoke coming from the forest just inland from the beach near the wreck on the western end of Cefn Sidan. The result was of course a radio call to our control to alert them to the information; the team sprung into action as we set about locating the fire  which was found outside the park boundary in the NRW Pembrey Forest. Other members of the public were already attempting to tackle the fire and had alerted the Fire Service via 999 as had our team at control. On this point the gentleman who called 999 was amazed he had a mobile signal, it's worth mentioning that 99% of the time when you dial 999 your mobile will pick up any network not necessarily the one you pay for... technology eh! Well anyway it was soon apparent that the cause of the fire was a DISPOSABLE BBQ and a campfire, I cannot unders