News

Once again we were present at the Cardiff half marathon with a running team comprising both CBMRT members and supporters. Our eleven runners exceeded expectations once again and returned from the race in record times. They were cheered on by team members, friends and families, and the presence of one of our response Landrovers near the finish. The weather was chilly but sunny and clear, making for perfect running conditions.

The Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team is calling for volunteers to help raise funds as operational team members are kept busy responding to incidents with six incidents in the last three days.

The Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team is today hosting a day of outdoor events and activies for children from the Caerphilly Children's Center. 9 children with a range of mobility and learning difficulties and their parents are going to be learning how Mountain Rescue works and taking part in a series of activities which will take them through the range of things that Mountain Rescue do from working on a rockface to first aid and working with radios.

An incident for the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team this morning for a missing woman in the valleys north of Bridgend was stood down quickly when police found the missing woman safe and well.

Early on the morning of Sunday 22nd March, 2009, Gwent Police asked Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team for assistance in the search for a missing elderly gent in Tredegar.

The team has been entered into the Good Year "Team of the Year" awards along with sponsorship from Good Year.

We were called last night (Friday 24 October) to a search incident which was our 78th call of the year, making 2008 our busiest recorded year.

Following the previous news item I guess it was inevitably going to happen, that 2008 becomes a record breaking year. Late last night (Friday 24 October) we were called by police to help search for a missing vulnerable male person who was missing from a local community in one of the Rhondda valleys.

Today we attended yet another call for help and we have now moved into the 70's for this years running total of incidents.

We have been callled to four incidents in the last four days ensuring that the month of May continues to be a busy one - Nine incidents this month so far.

In the last four days we have been called out four times.

• A group of walkers out for an evening walk in the Brecon Beacons called the police to report a sighting of flares in the next valley. Soon after starting the search in that valley one of our search dogs found a military group taking part in an exercise.
• Next was to north of Cardiff to help police with a crashed hang glider.
  

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