Few bush rescue operations last as long yet still have a happy ending. Paul Campbell-Allen puts it down to teamwork and volunteers
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In the 25 years that Paul Campbell-Allen has been involved in searching for people missing in the Australian bush, he has never been part of a search that has gone for as long as the one for Hadi Nazari and that resulted in someone being found alive.
“The longest one that I’ve done with BSAR” – NSW State Emergency Service bush search and rescue, of which he is unit commander – “was 18 days. And we’ve had a couple which have been similar sort of length [as the 13 day search for Nazari]… in those previous cases, though, there was no find [of either a survivor or a body], so the difference on this one was there was a find which was just fantastic.”
