It’s coming up to midnight. You’re just getting ready for bed when the pager goes off: PLEASE CALL DUTY INSPECTOR, SOUTH WALES POLICE. The inspector tells you that a police search manager has requested Mountain Rescue for a search of a missing vulnerable 42 year old in Ebbw Vale. You page out the message to […]
Yesterday was the team’s first exercise of the year, so at 0800 I headed up to base. It was to be a day of medical workstations, where we had a number of scenarios to work our way around. We headed off to RAC Corner and spent the day there looking at various scenarios in the […]
Ok, so now I have at first hand a better idea of what Tom Reynolds talks about in his blog. I was on duty again with the first responders last night. Since Sean’s heading back to Aber for a bit tonight, I decided a nice home-cooked dinner was in order – in hindsight perhaps not […]
Well, I’ve been away for a few days, so I’ve not attended any callouts, but here’s a quick rundown of the callouts over the last few days: Friday 22nd (Technically Saturday morning)Â Drove to my Mother’s on Friday and was about to go to bed when the pager went off – 0114 according to my […]
Last night was our usual training night and on the agenda was river crossings – parhaps a particularly apt session considering our recent weather. We were gathered outside in warm gear going through the steps to take when crossing a river when the group next to us abandoned their practice and shouted at us to […]
Gah. I missed a callout this morning. Mal has already blogged about it, and the BBC even have a news article about it. It looks like a good call too, and being that close I would have been pretty much almost first on scene. Now I’ve been a bit less forward about attending callouts lately […]
Given the weather over the last few days[1], you’d expect to see walkers on the Beacons with waterproofs, hot flasks, etc. So why were we called last night to a pair without waterproofs? The pager went off at 1848 – just as Mal and I were getting ready to head off to fix his car […]
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