{"id":143229,"date":"2018-06-19T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/missing-mans-police-drone-rescue-in-norfolk-a-miracle\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:28:09","slug":"missing-mans-police-drone-rescue-in-norfolk-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/missing-mans-police-drone-rescue-in-norfolk-a-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing man’s police drone rescue in Norfolk ‘a miracle’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"TitchwellImage copyright Norfolk Police
Image caption A police drone found 75-year-old Peter Pugh in remote marshes <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wife of a missing man who was located by a police drone up to his armpits in mud said it was "a miracle" he was found alive.<\/p>\n

A major search was launched for Peter Pugh, 75, from Brancaster, Norfolk, after he disappeared following a beach walk on Saturday at 17:10 BST.<\/p>\n

It was only when the drone was sent up that Mr Pugh was spotted in a muddy creek at Titchwell Marshes on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Police said the technology was key to their rescue operation.<\/p>\n

Mr Pugh's wife Felicity said her husband, who is still in hospital in King's Lynn with hypothermia, was "slightly bemused" by what had happened.<\/p>\n

She said she had nothing but praise for the "wonderful" emergency services involved in finding him. <\/p>\n

Image copyright Norfolk Police
Image caption Emergency services including the coastguard and local lifeboat were involved in Peter Pugh's rescue <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sgt Alex Bucher from Norfolk Constabulary said: "There is no doubt that without the police drone we would not have been able to locate him in the time we did.<\/p>\n

"The police drone allows us to search areas that are difficult to access and within close range where a helicopter may not be able to get."<\/p>\n

The search for Mr Pugh involved 50 people, the police helicopter, HM Coastguard and a lifeboat from Wells. <\/p>\n

He was pulled from the deep muddy creek and given first aid until the coastguard helicopter arrived to winch him out at 15:38.<\/p>\n

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    Mrs Pugh said her husband left the family on the way home from Brancaster beach to take a shortcut but slipped and fell.<\/p>\n

    The keen cyclist and walker was able to drink fresh water from the creek while waiting for rescue. <\/p>\n

    "The emergency services and technology saved his life but he stayed alive because he was so fit," Mrs Pugh said.<\/p>\n

    She added she was "quite sure he had been washed out to sea" as time went on and his rescue "was like a miracle".<\/p>\n

    Mrs Pugh said she and her three sons had decided he would never be allowed to walk off again, adding "he'll have a ball and chain around the kitchen".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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