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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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 […]
It’s been abusy weekend. Friday night Steve, an old friend from London came up to stay for a few days which was nice – we hadn’t seen each other in a while, and although I had a full weekend planned, he was happy to get out of London for a while. So Saturday was mostly […]
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 […]
Today has been busy. Â 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 […]