{"id":752219,"date":"2026-08-28T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752219\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T06:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:58:20","slug":"recovery-crews-pull-two-stranded-brean-beach-warden-trucks-to-safety-using-ww2-scammell-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752219\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery crews pull two stranded Brean beach warden trucks to safety using WW2 Scammell Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Two beach warden trucks were recovered from thick mud on Brean beach on Thursday (August 27th), after becoming stuck in the sea during the rescue of a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Weston Recovey used a fleet of vehicles \u2013 including a WW2 Scammell Pioneer tank recovery truck \u2013 to pull the two trucks up the beach with winches, as pictured here.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"601\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The spectacle attracted a crowd of onlookers to watch the unusual recovery operation, which lasted around two hours. It comes after two tides had completely covered the stranded trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Somerset Council, which runs the beach warden service, told Burnham-On-Sea.com: \u201cThis was an unfortunate incident which happened while our Beach Safety Warden was rescuing a child who was trapped in the mud on an incoming tide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"689\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cCrucially they got the child to safety but unfortunately his vehicle became stuck and a further vehicle which went out to assist also became stuck. Both were caught by the tide. Thankfully nobody was injured.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>A trail of leaking oil was seen emerging from one of the stuck vehicles and a clean-up of the beach area was being planned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"629\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One eyewitness to Wednesday\u2019s incident added: \u201cOne of the trucks got stuck and called for backup. Then the other one came to pull it out and got stuck as well. It was quite frantic for a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/84deeb18-1893-4c9b-a2e8-c5f3e61a0c12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"739\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"571\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"704\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"677\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"671\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"551\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/beach-trucks-recovery-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"732\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two beach warden trucks were recovered from thick mud on Brean beach on Thursday (August 27th), after becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}