LETTER : Mountain rescue avoids tree-tops

The Independent - London;  May 9, 1996 ;     166 words ......the M65 you state that "a mountain rescue team has been recruited to...This has caused upset among mountain rescue team members and also among...general public who support mountain rescue and consider that the proper...

Mountain rescue teams in funding windfall

The Sunday Herald;  November 16, 2003 ;     321 words ...Mountain rescue teams in Scotland are expected to...he meets members of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team during a visit to Ballater as...growing unrest among Scotland's busiest mountain rescue teams as their budgets, which already...

Peak performers ... the volunteers who come to our aid at 2,000 feet;...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Williams reports THEY are the best mountain rescue teams in the world and if ever we...Others as is the case with our own Mountain Rescue Service, are unpaid volunteers. They...Howells, team leader of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, has helped rescue around 500...

`Mountain Rescue here ... Are you free?' Those are the words Edward de la...

The Independent - London;  April 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......you". A woman's voice said: "It's Mountain Rescue control here. Are you free to come...this was not a job for them but for Mountain Rescue. Pagers, or in my case the telephone...the Edale team of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation (PDMRO), itself part...

BLIZZARD WIZARD; Mountain rescue truck is unveiled.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 4, 2005 ;     265 words ......POLICE have unveiled a pounds 130,000 mountain rescue vehicle - which can save lives in...and can retrace its tracks exactly. Mountain rescue co-ordinator Inspector Graham Gibb...The machine will be based at the mountain rescue centre in Braemar, Aberdeenshire...

Duracell TV Ad Shines Light on Rocky Mountain Rescue Group.

The Denver Post (Denver, Colorado) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 8, 2002 ;     443 words ......this week, Boulder's elite Rocky Mountain Rescue Group finds itself in the national...for headlamps and radios. Rocky Mountain Rescue Group is one of the oldest and most experienced mountain-rescue teams in North America, said Duracell...

Executive cash for mountain rescue

The Scotsman;  November 18, 2003 ;     558 words ......annual running costs of Scotland's mountain rescue teams were praised yesterday - with...can also be dangerous places. "Our mountain rescue teams do a fantastic job saving lives...and save lives." Mr McConnell said mountain rescue teams had warned him at a meeting...

Award to mountain rescue veteran.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 1, 2005 ;     142 words ......service. Aled Taylor of Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team was awarded the distingushed...team for more than 25 years by the Mountain Rescue Council. Mr Taylor, 58, of Waunfawr...representative on the North Wales Mountain Rescue Association since then. In 1980 Aled...

Mountain rescue responds to NHS 999 call for help

Scotland on Sunday;  May 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......in some parts of the Highlands, but mountain rescue volunteers are likely to get their...annually. Nick Forwood, chairman of the Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland, said: "In Argyll...fast enough, but we have already got mountain rescue people in place. "The Scottish Ambulance...

Mountain Rescue Needs A Lift -- Public's help sought to replace the truck...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  April 27, 2000 ;     685 words ......members of the Central Washington Mountain Rescue unit than raising money for equipment...Rapasky joined the other members of the mountain rescue unit in lowering and raising a boulder-fill...was available. Normally, the local mountain rescue group relies on an annual mailing...

Digital mapping information to help guide mountain-rescue teams in search...

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  December 7, 2006 ;     337 words ......the country is now available to mountain rescue teams. More than 80 local teams...under the responsibility of the Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland, including Aberdeen Mountain Rescue Team, Braemar Mountain Rescue Team...

Obituary: Johnnie Lees Mountain rescue leader awarded the George Medal

The Independent - London;  August 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......key figure in reorganising the RAF Mountain Rescue Service to perform a post-war role...attention to inadequacies in the RAF Mountain Rescue Service, formed in 1943 to cope with...of the most instrumental figures in mountain rescue, introducing new equipment and techniques...

SNOW TERROR; Mountain rescue drama after avalanche hits eight...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  April 17, 2002 ;     316 words ......Regiment Army Air Corps, Wattisham, three mountain rescue teams were in action. Two helicopters...winter climb. Members of Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team were already out on the hills...Fast Response Unit from RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team to the scene. The injured were...

Experienced mountain rescue climber feared dead in rum fall

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  September 22, 2006 ;     367 words ......60, a member of his local Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team in Argyll and Bute, was crossing...Dumbarton, a member of Strathclyde Police Mountain Rescue Team, who also slipped into the waterfall...morning. Both of them are from different mountain rescue teams. "At 3pm the casualty and ...

-EAE: EAE Limited providing the communications know-how for Lochaber...

M2 Presswire;  August 3, 1998 ;     532 words ......communications know-how for Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...to supply the world-famous Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team based in Fort William with a...assortment of rescue equipment the mountain rescue team transports at any given time...