Aled Treharne on November 7th, 2006

So, er, 3 callouts since the last post.  The first was on Saturday morning at around 0400. I got up and quickly dressed before slapping a flask of hot water together and jumping in the car. Made it to base for Alpha and jumped on with Blackie. The callout was in Bridgend where an elderly […]

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Aled Treharne on November 2nd, 2006

Sorry I missed the updates on callouts over the weekend what with all the other joy that was going on. Typically, on the weekend that both Mal and I decided to head to Aberystwyth for weekends with respective better halves, we get two cracking callouts. Very little information on these so far – I suspect […]

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Aled Treharne on October 16th, 2006

As I was on my way into work this morning, the pager went off. An uncommon call – this was an area search call – I can only remember two of these, the area call system is usually used to alert us of a casualty with a known location, however it can be used in […]

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Aled Treharne on October 15th, 2006

Today has been busy.  I’ve spent most of it training with the Caerphilly First Responders, where we finished off our training, got a few bits of paperwork sorted and did our written exam. Next week we have our assesments. Malcolm came with me this week, and things went spiffingly, so looks like he’s going to […]

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Aled Treharne on October 11th, 2006

The second Sunday evening on the trot I was relaxing when the pager went off. It’d been a long wekeend anyway because I’d spent it with Sean in Aberystwyth, which is a 2 and a half hour trek up some interesting mid-Wales roads (each way). Details were brief – a young chap, despondent, had disappeared […]

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