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County Council support for Dartmoor Search and Rescue
The Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team in Tavistock has received £2,000 from Devon County Council for training and equipment.
The DSRT in Tavistock is a charity with over forty volunteers. They provide search and rescue support to the emergency services when people become lost or injured on Dartmoor and surrounding rural areas.
This year the team has responded to 24 callouts so far, with many hours spent locating people and bringing them back to safety.
The volunteers train weekly as a group with exercises in all weather conditions, day and night, on the moor.
Training in the latest techniques is essential, so funding from the Council to help pay for it has been welcomed by the Team.
Team Leaders are attending a refresher course this month and two members of their Control Team have recently attended a residential Planning and Management course to learn systematic search and rescue procedures.
Tim Forster, Equipment Officer for DSRT Tavistock said:
“Our training course fees alone this year amount to over £1,500, and with ongoing maintenance and repairs to our equipment and vehicle to pay for, this donation is most welcome”
Cllr
Roy Connelly, Chairman of the Council’s West Devon County Committee and a
Tavistock resident, gave the funding from his allocation of the County
Committee’s grant. Each of the Council’s County Committees have grants that
Members can allocate to local groups or projects that benefit the local
community.
He said:
“We all value the work the DSRT undertake on behalf of the community, much of which is under reported. Incidents such as the rescue operation and support of the Ten Tors scheme is but one example, where young people and their families see at first hand the quality of work this group carries out. We’re very pleased to help the Team with this funding.”
