Category: Rescue

Mountain Rescue

PF17 BBU Keswick Mountain Rescue Team Mercedes Sprinter 4×4

PF17 BBU
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team
Mercedes Sprinter 4×4
Incident Support Vehicle. Used to carry a small rescue boat and related equipment. The van seats three people and replaces the need for a boat on a trailer to be towed by one of the Land Rovers, freeing it up to attend other incidents.

Mountain Rescue

CX61 AYG Keswick Mountain Rescue Team Mercedes Sprinter 4×4

CX61 AYG
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team
Mercedes Sprinter 4×4
This minibus has good off-road capabilities and can transport people as well as equipment as some of the seats have been removed. Notice the key safe on the rear so the vehicle can be accessed by other team members when the driver is up a mountain.

Search and Rescue

G-MCGE HM Coastguard Sikorsky S-92A

G-MCGE
HM Coastguard
Sikorsky S-92A
The Bristow-operated Coastguard helicopter is seen here rescuing a gentlemen from the roof of a cathedral. After lowering a medic and a stretcher the man in winched up into the helicopter that is hovering over the Minster in York, drawing large crowds. The narrow spiral staircases taking visitors to the roof of the buidling are not suitable for stretchering someone down. The Coastguard provide search and rescue helicopters for the whole country and practice every few years winching someone off the roof of York Minster.

Mountain Rescue

CN66 ERZ RAF Isuzu D-Max

CN66 ERZ
RAF
Isuzu D-Max
Based at RAF Valley. Each of the vehicle has not a fleet number but a mountain name shown, this one is Tryfan. Other Valley vehicle names are Glyder and Cnicht.