In this action shot RAF SAR helicopter “Rescue 137” is seen airlifting a casualty from a road accident. It takes off from the A87 in Scotland and travels to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. Many other road-going emergency vehicles can be seen assisting.
Category Archives: Search and Rescue
Search and rescue teams are used for accessing remote casulaties and helping locating missing people.
Q164 JBV is one of two Hagglund BV 206s that are …
Q164 JBV is one of two Hagglund BV 206s that are operated by Bay Search and Rescue at Morecambe Bay, Cumbria. These tracked articulated vehicles can cope with extremely boggy conditions, and replaced a hovercraft that was used in the large tidal bay. The Haggs can travel up to 52 km/h on the road and 3 km/h on water.
K469 AHG This is the second Hagglund operated …
K469 AHG This is the second Hagglund operated by Bay SAR. It is fitted with a different trailer to the one above, this time having equipment storage and a crane. It is fitted with a Mercedes-Benz 3-litre diesel engine, which when combined with the tracked wheels can climb slopes up to 45 degrees.
D742 YFG Bay SAR also operate this Land Rover …
Wiltshire Search and Rescue (WILSAR) operate two of …
HX07 BBK is an Iveco Daily that is used by Hampshire …
Here are two of SARA’s emergency rescue …
This is a Land Rover Defender that is used by …
This is a LDV 200 Pilot van that is also used by …
This is an example of the colour-scheme used by Royal …
This vessel, Knight Errant Venturer, is used by Venturers …
P737 WGG is a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van …
P737 WGG is a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van that is used by Trossachs SAR team in Scotland. It was donated by Strathclyde Fire & Rescue after being removed from front line services with them. It can carry up to eight search and rescue dogs and is used at incidents across Strathcylde and at major incidents anywhere in Scotland.
M547 UFS Based at MOD Forthside in Stirling, this …
TCZ 5218 This Northern Ireland-registered Land …
In this action shot a Royal Navy SAR Sea King …
M644 LBU This Land Rover is used by Cornwall …
NK03 AXJ is an Iveco van used as a mobile control …
NK03 AXJ is an Iveco van used as a mobile control unit by the Teesdale and Weardale Search and Rescue Team. The side door provides access to the control area where there is room for two controllers and five personnel. Additionally, the awning can be extend to provide a weatherproof tem briefing room or to provide multi casualty care.
The rear of the van is used for storage of equipment an is separate to the control area. It hold a variety of medical, climbing ,search and rescue equipment as well as a generator for power and a compressor to extend the vehicles communication mast which is fitted to the right hand side of the van.
VN52 XPB This is a double-exposure photograph …
R496 MKO This Iveco Daily is also used by Sebev…
R496 MKO This Iveco Daily is also used by Sebev. It is an Incident Control Unit which is fitted with a hydraulic mast, internal control area with radios and computer mapping system. The rear compartment holds rescue equipment including fire extinguishers, medical equipment, life jackets, generator, cones and more. It is liveried in red and yellow battenburg markings.
M667 CVC Here is a Land Rover Defender belonging …
M667 CVC Here is a Land Rover Defender belonging to ‘Global Rescue Services’. It is liveried as a Search & Rescue Team vehicle and has blue flashing lights fitted.
The rear view. The roof rack also has a top-box for weatherproof storage of equipment. The familiar spare wheel has been removed from the back door.
L337 PRA This SAR Land Rover Discovery …
This is a ‘Severn Area Rescue Association’ Land …
Another of their vehicles is this Landrover 110 (long …
This picture shows members of Trossachs Search …
This picture shows members of Trossachs Search & Rescue Team in an eight-wheeled off-road vehicle. Even the SAR dogs have matching hi-viz orange overalls.
Here is the team Landrover in the sort of terrain it is designed for. In the foreground is a team member and canine assistant. The team are not mountain rescue personnel but carry out most of their work at low level and at disaster-type incidents.
G263 EOL A close-up shot of the team G-reg Landrover. There is lots of space to carry personnel and equipment in the vehicles, on the roof and even on the front bumper. Thanks to Trossachs SAR for supplying these three pictures.