Just after midnight last night, I spotted two distress flares over Westshore towards Conwy, they had already been reported when I phoned, however I have just seen this message from the Coastguard.
"We were paged at 00:07 last night to multiple flare sightings at West Shore.
We arrived on scene and spoke to a few witnessess who had seen people firing flares in the car park.
We conducted a search of the area and found a spent flare cap. However, reports had also been recieved of a flare possibly out to sea so a search of the estuary was commenced.
Nothing was found so we could only assume that one of the flares was fired out to sea.
There was nothing further for us to do so we were returned to station.
Flares are not fireworks, there was a potential for a large scale search using the Lifeboat and the Rescue Helicopter with multiple shore teams out searching for hours. This was avoided by finding the flare cap.
This had the potential to put a massive strain on resources had there been a real emergency that needed to be dealt with. The police were also informed."