Mental Health in SAR Week
I had the pleasure of talking to Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs last week on Mental Health, Mental Well-Being and Mental Preparedness for SAR. As always with these topics it was quite heavy at times, but it was also a great bonding activity and good humoured. It is always a hard one for the trainer/facilitator; you [...]
April 11, 2011
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Tags: Emergency Services, Firefighters, Mental Health, Mental Ill-Effects, Mental Preparedness, Mental Well-Being, Paramedics, Police, SAR Volunteers · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Inland Flood Rescue Association
I wrote last week about SEBEV’s past experience working in flooded areas. This was not something SEBEV had been set up specifically to help with, it was just a natural extension of their willingness to help a community in need. With flooding and its terrible aftermath seemingly becoming more common, it was inevitable that a [...]
February 1, 2010
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Tags: Emergency Services, Flood Rescue, Flood Rescue Team, Flooding Response, Inland Flood Rescue Association, SAR Group, SAR Team, SEBEV, Swiftwater Rescue, UK SAR, Water Rescue · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
SEBEV’s Past Civil Contingency Work with Flooding and Flooded Areas
I was reminded last week of the Purley Floods in 2003 on my visit to SEBEV‘s HQ. Whilst the last few years have seen several wide scale floods and the use of specialist volunteers to help support the statutory emergency services and authorities, and indeed the setting up of special committees, protocols and organisations to deal with such [...]
January 20, 2010
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Tags: Emergency Services, Flooding Response, Purley Floods, SEBEV, South East Berkshire Emergency Volunteers · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Specialist Night / Low Light Search Technician Certification
One final piece of breaking news today; a new specialist night/low light search technician certification course being offered by Black Badge, the company that published Gary Foo’s book Emergency Response & Search & Rescue. According to their website; The Emergency Services and Search and Rescue Teams respond to calls year round at all times of the day [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: Emergency Response & Search & Rescue, Emergency Services, Gary Foo, Night Searching, Search and Rescue Teams, Search Training, Specialist Night / Low Light Search Technician Course · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts, Search Training
SEBEV SAR Training Officer attends the Berkshire Emergency Support Organisations Group (ESOG)
As part of my quest to keep the whole lowland search community informed of the latest Unit news, I noted this news piece on the SEBEV SAR website. Many ALSAR teams, as well as their valuable missing person search work, find themselves working with the emergency services during major incidents; often in other roles besides [...]
November 11, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Berkshire Emergency Support Organisations Group, Emergency Services, ESOG, Major Incidents, Missing Person Search, SAR, SEBEV, SEBEV SAR · Posted in: Search News
