We had an incident tonight. I headed up from work to base where we got the vehicles ready. We had enough people so all 3 vehicles left base and we headed along the Heads of the Valleys road to Trefl Quarry. Once there we started our search for our casualty, reported to be trapped on […]
This weekend I mainly spent at my Grandmother’s in west Wales. About 10 years ago my Grandfather died, leaving my Grandmother with a large detached house and a rather large garden to look after on her own. I, unfortunately, moved away and my father’s never been with living things – he’s an Architect and spends […]
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First, an apology. For those of you who hang on every word I write (yes, both of you), I apologise for not updating you. Things have been quiet recently. Well, no, not quiet – because I have been manically busy, especially at work where we have far more work than time. It’s just there’s not […]
It’s been a quiet weekend in the house this easter. On Thursday, my man-flu was bad enough that I decided to head down to see the Doc, who diagnosed a chest infection and put me on some anitbiotics. Blech. That rapidly turned into tonsilitis by Friday night and so the last few days have been […]
It’s Friday night. I’ve gone to bed after studying hard ready for my Mountain Rescue “Casualty Care” course this weekend (our medical qualification). I’m fast asleep when my pager goes off… *sigh* So it’s off we go, get dressed and head out the door – it’s just gone 0230. This is an urgent search for […]
This is the long-awaited second part of this post last month asking my readers what you would do as a search manager. Apologies for the delay – Real Life managed to get in the way. So what did you do? First of all, he’s done nothing wrong. The Police have a remit to preserve life […]
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Friday turned out to be an interesting day around here. When I got up there was a dusting of fresh snow on the ground. As I drove into work, I was hearing reports of further snow falls but when I got to Cardiff, there wasn’t a huge amount on the ground. We got to work […]
So after a brief period of indecision while Ambulance Control, the Met Office and our Incident Controller were trying to work out what the weather was doing, it was decided that we should go on standby from midnight. So some 19 of us appeared up at base last night, with probably half of us being […]
We’ve had a pager message this morning – the Ambulance service have requested that we place two Landrovers on standby to assist them this evening and for the next 36 hours or so due to the expected poor weather. This means that base and two Landrovers will be permanently crewed tonight and tomorrow including a […]
Saturday dawned bright with a deep blue sky more typical of a summer day. Jon and I’d arranged to have another attempt at getting him up to the highest point in the Beacons – twice we’d been up on to the Neuadd Ridge already, but we’d not been able to make it. So we parked […]