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Edale Mountain Rescue
Edale Mountain Rescue Team (EMRT) operates in the UK’s Peak District National Park and is one of the busiest Mountain Rescue Teams in the country.
Year on year we are getting busier and in 2006 the team were involved in 95 incidents. We are a registered charity, number 512559.
The team is made up entirely of volunteers who come from all walks of life and give up their time freely. We have 46 fully operational hill members who are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. For this we are very grateful to members families and employers. Of the 46 members 5 are fully trained doctors and 2 are dog handlers who are part of the wider Search and Rescue Dog Association (SARDA).
Regular training familiarises all team members with our specialist rescue equipment and the principles of navigation, crag rescue and advanced first aid.
Frequent activity in our key operational area ensures that all team members have good local knowledge. An essential part of providing an efficient search and rescue service.
In addition to the operational members we also have an ever expanding and highly valued support group called “Friends in High Places” (FiHP). FiHP work behind the scenes providing help with fundraising and equipment maintenance.
We, like all other Mountain Rescue teams in England and Wales, have no central funding and rely entirely on charitable donations to raise the money we need to run the team. All the money we raise is used to improve the service we offer by investing in training for members, equipment maintenance and renewal and keeping our two emergency response vehicles on the road.
For the last 15 years we have been based at an industrial site in the Hope Valley courtesy of Lafarge who have provided us with garage accommodation. We are now at the stage where to operate as we want, we really do need our own purpose built rescue centre and our attention is now been turned toward this.
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