Thursday 20 September 2012

Training Night

Its the team training night tonight -  a chance to refresh on many of our core skills or to learn new ones.
As a volunteer Coastguard Rescue Team we get tasked by Portland MRCC to a number of incidents including:

  • Coastal Searches - eg missing persons, overdue walkers, hikers seperated from their group etc.

  • Rope (cliff) Rescues - persons fallen over cliffs, injured or tired climbers and in many cases for dogs

  • Safety Advice - prevention of accidents and words of advice following incidents

  • Helecopter Rescues - supporting the helecopter crew, preparing a landing site, crowd control

  • First Aid - much of our work is with injured climbers, walkers, beach users

  • Lifeboat Support - we don't have a boat, but we monitor and support Swanage RNLI on shouts

  • SW Ambulance - we dont have an ambulance either but we support the service in remote and coastal locations

  • Communications - relaying communications between the MRCC Ops Room and a remote incident location

  • Ordnance and Flares - identifying washed up items, and keeping a safety cordon until safe disposal

  • Community Work - safety cover for Swanage Carnival water-based events, Purbeck Marathon, Fireworks evenings



We are one of a number of 'declared assets' available to HM Coastguard's Portland MRCC for them to call on as they deal with the variety of 999 calls that come in every day. 



A multi-agency incident earlier in 2012 involving HM Coastguard, SW Ambulance and Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance







WE CANNOT ACCEPT SPENT OR TIME-EXPIRED FLARES OR PYROTECHNICS AT THE STATION.  THIS IS NOT ONE OF OUR ROLES AND IT IS ILLEGAL TO ATTEMPT TO DISPOSE OF THEM AT A COASTGUARD RESCUE STATION.
If you have out of date pyrotechnics, these should be disposed of by appointment at the RNLI college in Poole

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