Rescue Practices

Devon Cave Rescue Organisation undergo regular rescue practices in caves and underground locations throughout Devon, and have joint practices with other teams.

An example of this was with Dartmoor Rescue Group (Ashburton Section), the venue was kept "top secret " until the day when those team members who had indicated their availability received a telephone call detailing the location, nature of incident, number of person reported missing etc.  This tested the teams ability to respond quickly to an incident. The evening went well and a number of key lessons were learnt and in general the rescue practice was deemed very successful.  Using the react stretcher on loan from West Breacon Cave rescue Team proved successful, especially the lifeline and haul shuffle method of lifting a stretcher from a vertical haul to horizontal with a limited height pitch head. 

Crowndale Mine 6th October 2007 - Crowndale Mine - Rescue Practice - Rope Access

Chudleigh Rock Centre 8th August 2007 - Chudleigh Rock Centre - Rigging Practice

Afton-Red-Rift-Practice 12th June 2007 - Murder Investigation Scenario Training Evening

Afton-Red-Rift-Practice 28th April 2007 - Afton Red Rift - Full Rescue Scenario

Guy-Risdon-Training 15th Feb 2007 - Guy Risdon (Adventure First Aid) led Training Evening

DCRO-Police-Training 13th Dec 2006 - DCRO Receive Training From Devon & Cornwall Police

West Vitifer 18th Oct 2006 - Details of another joint DCRO-DRG practice

The date, time and location of the next Practice will appear on the diary page

Thanks to all those who attended the Last Practice.

Devon Today Joins us for our Practice

Vicky Sartin of the Devon Today magazine came along to a rescue practices at Chudleigh, a PDF copy of her two page report in the July edition is available to download, it includes some photos by Guy Harrop

It was a good practice session, our thanks to Vicky and Devon Today for there interest in DCRO and the fine article they published about the event.

Pridhamsleigh Page One of Two (2.2Mb PDF File)

BBC News Page Two of Two (1.8Mb PDF File)

Updated 10-10-07 CGS