Missing teen Jay Slater update as new photos released from Tenerife search

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New images have been released of the Spanish emergency crews working on the ongoing search for Jay Slater. The 19-year-old has been missing in Tenerife since Monday, June 17, with his increasingly desperate best friend begging for British police to get involved, reports the Mirror.The photos were shared on Facebook by volunteer firemen in the area - the Bomberos Voluntarios de Santiago del Teide.

Their post read: "On Tuesday morning, at 2:17 a.m. we are given a notice to search for the missing young man in Masca."A vehicle and personnel were dispatched to the site and together with firefighters based on Icod and officers from the civil guard of the mountain rescue team carried out a search in the area of the Ilda Mirador."Yesterday Wednesday at 14:38 we were activated to continue with the search for the young man moving 4 vehicles with 16 firefighters together with local police, firefighters from Guia de Isora, mountain civil guard, Guardia Civil unit of civil guard dogs, family and friends of the young man."The new pics showed the mercy crews wearing helmets working in mountainous terrain searching for Jay.

The volunteers confirmed that they were working with police, the mountain civil guard, the dogs unit and the teen's family and friends to scour the vast area.Jay Slater was reported missing by his friends on the Spanish island on Monday morning.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, vanished after going to stay in an area on the north of the island with people he had met on a night out following the NRG music festival.His pal Lucy last heard from him at around 8am that day, when he told her needed a drink of water and was trying to walk back to their accommodation after missing a bus.