Whilst on a multi-agency training exercise with Devon & Cornwall Police and a number of other rescue teams, one of the party came across an injured member of the public who had a suspected dislocated patella following a fall.
First aid was administered and, in a combined effort from the training t...
Today saw DevCRO called out to the North of the county to help in the ongoing search for a high risk missing person in the Coombe Martin area.
HM Coastguard had done an initial search of the area and located a cave system that they felt needed searching. DevCRO team members searched these tight an...
Team members from Devon Cave Rescue Organisation were among those involved in the major rescue from Cwm Dwr / Ogof Ffynnon Ddu in South Wales this weekend.
The casualty, having sustained multiple injuries as a result of a fall, had to be extracted by stretcher through Top Entrance. This route is...
Less than 12 hours after the previous callout Devon CRO were tasked by Devon & Cornwall Police to assist with an ongoing multi-agency search for a high-risk missing person in North Devon on the edge of the Exmoor National Park.
A small team travelled from our base in Buckfastleigh to assist with t...
Devon CRO was called by DSRT Ashburton to assist in the ongoing search for a missing person who went for a run and did not return. Concerned for his wellbeing, and having identified two mines in the area that the missing person might have entered, Devon CRO was tasked with the search.
These were s...
Storm Dennis now seems to be on the way out. The West Country certainly took a bashing.
DCRO were pleased to be able to support Devon and Cornwall Police, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue along with the other voluntary Search and Rescue teams.
For some of the time the team were based at Bovey...
In the evening of the 31st of January a number of members deployed in the team's emergency vehicles to join the multi-agency response assisting members of the public stranded in the snow on Haldon Hill, Devon.