NEWS

Dalton CFR Team have gone" Live" on 16th October 2010

On Tuesday 14th June 2011 members of SLSAR joined Pennington Guides on The Hoad for an evening of map work, using compasses and even completing a "search" and a talk about the team and what they do If you would like the team to visit and give a talk with your organization please contact us on the telephone number above

South Lakes Search & Rescue are pleased to announce that all of the members named below are now fully qualified Swiftwater Rescue Technicians (SRT-1), ready to be deployed anywhere in the county to flood and swiftwater rescues. Many Thanks to Paul Renwick of Rescue 3/Rescue Northeast from left to right: Paul Renwick(Rescue Northeast) Glenn Moody,Andy Tindale,Steve Armstrong,Dr Chris Eggleston(Team Doctor),Richard Nicholls(SLSARTeam Manager) Dr Kaitlyn Boros (Team Doctor),Dan Martin, Jon Turner(SRT Team Leader) Chris Archer and Steve Gaydon (Team Medic) Well done to Everyone

The Bay Radio in Conjunction with English Lakes Ice Cream have so very kindly donated £500 towards purchasing equipment for South Lakes Search & Rescue. From every member of the team Thank you to all those involved , your support is fantastic.

South Lakes Search & Rescue would like to say a huge thank you to everyone listed below for their generous donations.

1.The Public of Dalton and Newton for there Donations during Farther Christmas's visit to the town during December £348

2.Staff from Microbiology (pathology) Furness General Hospital In Barrow in Furness raised £50 during a cash not Christmas card collection, donating money to Dalton CFR Team.

3. Ormsgill school collected money instead of giving Christmas cards and raised £23.60

4. Workers Educational Assocciation collected a sum of £20 for Dalton CFR team instead of sending out Christmas cards

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Dalton team ready to help with emergencies

AFTER five months of training, the Dalton Community First Responders will be on-call and ready to help the emergency services from Sunday. The Dalton CFR team is made up of 10 volunteers, including three doctors, who live and work in the town.

As of Sunday, two team members at any one time will be on-call 24-hours-a-day, responding to calls from the NWAS where time can make the difference between life and death. Rich Nicholls, co-founder of South Lakes Search and Rescue, of which the Dalton CFR team is part, says it will be raring to go if called upon. He said: “This is a huge step forward for us. “The Dalton Community First Responders team have been working hard for five months now in their training with the NWAS. “If you look at it from the community perspective, this is huge, because the growth of this will go across multiple boundaries, and we’re starting to look at other areas now. “Now we’ve got the Dalton responders up and running, we can start looking at moving into other areas and getting the swift water rescue and mud rescue teams in place.“The excitement within the team now is incredible.

“The amount of work that has gone into where we are today has been absolutely phenomenal, and the support we’ve had from local businesses and from Dalton Town Council and Barrow Borough Council has been great.“We’ve got all of the equipment now and everything is ready to go.”

On Monday the team visited the NWAS control centre in Preston to see how it is run and learn about the 999 calls they may be asked to respond to.Mr Nicholls said: “It was good for the team because they’ve been in training for so long. Now it has become a reality.

“The volunteers all want to do something in their local area. This is their chance to put something back into the community.”The Dalton CFR will cover the whole of Dalton and the surrounding villages, from the Elliscales roundabout, to the Millbrow roundabout, up to the Park Road roundabout.Mr Nicholls said: “It is a massive area with quite a concentration of people in it, so our service is incredibly valuable.“If you look at the population of Dalton and Newton, it’s significant. “This service is going to save lives.

“If someone has a heart attack, they need to be seen by someone in the first four minutes, or their chance of survival diminishes by 60 to 70 per cent.“If the ambulance service is busy, particularly round the Christmas and New Year period, you could be waiting 20 minutes for an ambulance. “This team is there to facilitate the ambulance service in their time of need. “The whole team is spread out across the town and can get anywhere in Dalton within four minutes. That is the whole idea of this.”

Community First Responder coordinator for SLSAR, Andrea Nicholls, says the team is fully prepared for the task ahead. She added: “Week by week at training we went through different scenarios, how to react to a live patient, work on the dummies, using the oxygen masks and what they do, etc. “Then a big thing was learning how to use the defibrillators.

“Even when we go live, training will still be attended because even though everyone has been assessed and come out with excellent reports, you still need to practise.”

Chris Thakara, team leader of the Dalton CFR, will be part of the first on call team on Sunday. He said: “It is a big responsibility, but after all the training we’ve had, we should be ready. “The whole team is a little bit nervous, but in a good way.

“We’re all just looking forward to helping out the community, and if you can save someone’s life, that’s got to be a good thing.”

The team has raised almost £5,000 since its creation earlier this year.

Funding has been provided by the Bay Radio in conjunction with English Lakes Ice Cream, Diamould, Kimberly-Clark, Dalton Carnival Committee, Dalton Town Council and Barrow Borough Council, among others.

On behalf of the management team of SLSR, Andrea Nicholls would like to thank chairman Peter Hornby, the entire 30-strong team, the founding members, Rich Nicholls, Stephen Fell, Jon Turner and Ronnie Muggridge and Bay Search and Rescue for helping them with their new rescue vehicle andtraining.

The SLSAR is now recruiting for Askam Community First Responders.

For more information log on to www.slsar.org.uk.

First published at 13:09, Thursday, 14 October 2010
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Sarah Hornby,Ronnie Muggridge , last years Mayor of Dalton Elizabeth Young Chris Archer and Sophie collect a very kind donation from the Mayors Fund , which will help with the purchasing of the Defibrillators needed in the Dalton Community

10th April 2010

The Furness Responds to the Community

Pete Garbacz, Team Leader at the Furness in Dalton , hands over a cheque for £100 to Daltons Community First Responders Fundraising Manager Andrea Nicholls

The staff at the Dalton Branch have chosen Dalton First Responders as their Community Fundraising Challenge for 2010.They hope to raise money throughout the year by holding various fundraising events in order that the voluntary team can purchase life-saving equipment and to support the ongoing training of the First Responders.

Andrea Nicholls from Dalton First Responders told us "First Responders are volunteer members of the community who are trained to respond to emergency calls through the 999 system in conjunction with the Ambulance Service. Because First Responders are based within the community in which they live or work, they can attend the scene of an emergency in a very short time, often arriving within the first three or four minutes. We are very grateful to the Furness for their donation and for their ongoing support throughout their 2010. It shows that the Furness is committed to helping the local community."

We are happy to announce that SLSAR will be working very closely with our colleagues at Bay Search and Rescue who with there expertise in Mud Rescue Techniques & Swift Water Rescue will be a privilege to work with going forward.SLSAR recognizes the level of expertise from within Bay Search & Rescue and hope that through joint co -operation both teams can work together in all aspects of our work and at the same time ensuring safety is paramount to our communities.Show your support for the Bay Search & Rescue Team by Visiting there website at http://www.baysearchandrescue.org.uk