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 […]
The BBC has a news article today which is basically an editorial piece calling on the government to look at central funding. This has been an issue for a while – Mountain Rescue teams are not funded by the government in any way and to be frank, some people don’t want us to receive government […]
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 […]
Aren’t emotions funny things? Within the space of 10 minutes, I had a fantastic high off a phone call which may be giving me something I’ve been waiting for a few years for and wasn’t expecting for another few years[1]; followed by an incredible low after another phone call telling me my bank had fucked […]
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 […]
Every Thursday night, the Central Beacons team get together in the team base in Merthyr and do some kind of training. The topics covered range wildly from radios and comms, through medical, technical, search, personal health and fitness through to physique sports equipment. Equipment is very important for us – a technical rescue will involve […]