Some of our kind sponsors and contributors.....
Newton Abbot
If you wish to make a donation or would like to find out how you can raise funds for us for free just by searching the web please click here
Member of Mountain Rescue England & Wales
Web hosting kindly provided by www.dartsoft.co.uk
In case of an emergency
please call 999
and ask for Police
Equipped for Search and Rescue
The Ashburton Search and Rescue team is part of the Dartmoor Rescue Group (DRG) which was started in 1968. We are also affiliated to Mountain Rescue England and Wales (Post Number 78)
As the name suggests our HQ is on the outskirts of Ashburton in Devon on the edge of South Dartmoor. Our main responsibility is for search and rescue of missing persons in the South and East Devon area.
Although the police have the ultimate responsibility for responding to and investigating reports of missing persons, they will often request the services of volunteer Search and Rescue organisations such as Ashburton Dartmoor Rescue team to assist in such matters. Being employed by them, our responsibility covers the highland areas of Dartmoor to the fringes of the Devon coast, where the coastguard takes over. Hence our search and rescue operations can cover both rural and urban areas.
Voluntary Organisation
One key element about us is that we are a voluntary organisation that relies on the valued time and effort of its team members. We are also a registered charity (number: 1106098) and rely on kind donations from industry and the public plus fundraising activities by our members. Our members include a wide diversity of professionals, including A&E consultants, social care workers and electronics engineers.
In order to perform effective search and rescue operations we are equipped with a
mobile control vehicle, swift water vehicle and a Land Rover ambulance. We are also
highly skilled in radio ops, first aid and navigation skills to name a few. We also
are trained to operated within the other DRG teams (Plymouth, Tavistock and Okehampton)
as we are often called upon to work side by side with these other teams.
We are on Facebook here
