Coastguards Blitzed by Holiday Weekend Alerts ; Brixham's Coastguards Were Blitzed with a Rush of Bank Holiday Weekend Call-Outs to Deal with After the Heatwave Proved Too Much for Bathers and Seafarers.

Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › August 28, 2007

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Brixham's coastguards were blitzed with a rush of Bank Holiday weekend call-outs to deal with after the heatwave proved too much for bathers and seafarers.

Calls over a 13-hour period saw them at full stretch in one of the busiest weekends of the year so far.

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Coastguards Blitzed by Holiday Weekend Alerts ; Brixham's Coastguards Were Blitzed with a Rush of Bank Holiday Weekend Call-Outs to Deal with After the Heatwave Proved Too Much for Bathers and Seafarers.

All the action happened on Saturday with nine of the incidents in South Devon alone.

The deluge started just before 10am ...

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