It’s ok, it is all part of their training. Each year medical students from York University spend a day on the hills with Mark Reid of ‘The Inn Way‘ fame learning navigation skills and an appreciation of medical care in ‘wild and remote places’. When practical we
Read more →We are at Dixon’s Hollow /Adderston Field in Dalby, The Great Yorkshire Forest, this evening for stretcher familiarisation and handling along with associated casualty care equipment. So that will be team members trussed up in the Vacuum Mattress, MIBS and Bell stretcher then carried over all the
Read more →We are off to the forestry around Yearsley today to practice our search techniques and find site management. Essential skills when you are ‘saving lives in wild and remote places’.
Read more →We are out out training on the North York Moors in the area of Chop Gate village this weekend with our friends from Cleveland Mountain Rescue team this weekend. If you see us around then stop for a chat.
Read more →There is a nice clip on page six of today’s Scarborough Evening News about our navigation and communications training and assessments earlier this month. Thank you to the SEN for your ongoing support and for spreading the word about your local search and rescue team.
Read more →We are at Danby Beacon tomorrow for navigation, GPS and communications training and assessment (plus anything else Mark thinks up between now and then). Start at 08:30 through until we find our way back there. And just for Roger some little known facts about RAF Danby Beacon.
Read more →At the base for 19:00 Annual ‘safe working with helicopters’ presentation and video, casualty handling and assessment of the skills necessary to be a passenger in one of our response vehicles. All part of the continual training and development to equip us to be able to
Read more →We are just back from an evening training session where the new team members went through a period of practical training on search techniques while the more experienced team members were assessed for their search skills. Well done to all those who passed.
Read more →We held the January night exercise in the area of Jugger Howe Beck and Harwood Dale Forest on the North York Moors between Scarborough and Whitby. These two area have both proved to be ‘hot spots’ in our recent history for live call out. The scenario was
Read more →Well done to Paul, Richard and Steve on successfully completing their call-out assessment today. Although looking at the picture you would not know it, there again it was taken in driving rain and we had not told them at that point. The team look forward to seeing
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