Category: Rescue

TCZ 5218 This Northern Ireland-registered Land Rover Defender is used for SAR work. Notice the bespoke enclosed roof rack for equipment.



The rear view of the same Land Rover.

In this action shot a Royal Navy SAR Sea King helicopter has landed to transfer a patient to a waiting Scottish Ambulance Service emergency ambulance.

M644 LBU This Land Rover is used by Cornwall Search and Rescue Team.



The rear view of the same Land Rover.

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 of a Vauxhall Combo diesel van used by the SAR company Sebev. It is used as an Incident Support Unit and carries pop-up shelters for major incidents, as well as a generator, floodlights and fire extinguishers among other things.

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 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 has minimal livery and is fitted with blue flashing lights on the roof and front grille.

This is a ‘Severn Area Rescue Association’ Land Rover Discovery TDi. It is stationed at Beachley and is mainly used at marine incidents. SARA provides in-shore rescue boat and land search services for the Severn Estuary and River Severn.

Another of their vehicles is this Landrover 110 (long wheel base). It is stationed at and used around Sharpness.

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.

Here is a vehicle used by the North of Tyne Search and Rescue Team. The Ford Transit is large enough to carry lots of equipment and people around narrow roads and off-road tracks.



A second North of Tyne SRT vehicle, this time a Land Rover.

Now we have a look inside a Search and Rescue van. Lots of climbing equipment can be seen but unfortunately no room for a patient to lie down.

Here a RN rescue Sea King (Rescue 177) is joined by a yellow RAF rescue Sea King (Rescue 122) from RAF Valley, Anglesey. It is very rare to see both services’ helicopters together.

A RN Sea King Helicopter at Bristol Harbour.

The helicopter winches a simulated casualty to safety.

This RN Sea King Helicopter is from RNAS Cauldrose.



The other side of the aircraft.

Below the helicopter are an RAF Mountain Rescue Land Rover from RAF Leeming and an Across Jumbulance for transporting terminally ill patients on holiday (Across is a charity). The pictures were taken on Sunday 30/01/00 at the start of the ‘Across the Roof of Britain Walk’.

Here a RAF Search and Rescue Sea King helicopter approaches in a cloudless sky.

As the same heli comes in to land among some houses, the winchman looks out to check for any obstructions.

A RAF rescue crew transfer a patient to their yellow Sea King helicopter before rushing them to hospital.

A look inside a RAF Sea King search and rescue helicopter.

A RAF Sea King helicopter preparing for take off from a York hospital.



The take off. It is carrying a baby in an incubator unit to a hospital in the Midlands.



The Sea King heads off into the distance.

A RAF Westland S61 Sea King HAR3, renowned for their role as search and rescue helicopters, over the North Sea.

Here is another rescue Sea King in a scenic Lake District picture.