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Oban Mountain Rescue’s ‘Sky’ gains Grade 5 Search and Rescue Dog Status
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Written by Ross Lilley   
Sunday, 24 October 2010 11:07

Oban Mountain Rescue’s search and rescue dog, Sky, recently achieved the top grade for search and rescue dogs in UK. Sky was originally rescued by Argyll Animal Aid and re-homed with her handler’s family in 2005. Since then she has been training with Oban Mountain Rescue and the Search & Rescue Dog Association of Southern Scotland (SARDA). Along with her handler she is now qualified as part of a full mountain call out status grade 5 dog team, the standard for which is recognised by the National SARDA of the UK. Thanks to support from family, friends, OMRT and SARDA Sky has gone from rescued dog to rescue dog.

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 October 2010 12:27
 
Donate to Oban Mountain Rescue by sending a text message
Funding
Written by Ross Lilley   
Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:44

You can now support Oban Mountain Rescue Team just by sending a text message. Send following message: OMRT01 £10 (or whatever donation you wish to give up to maximum of £10)  to this number: 70070.

You will receive a text message receipt and the chance to add Gift Aid. Your donation will be added to your mobile phone bill and your mobile operator will pass 100% of the text donation onto Oban Mountain Rescue via JustGiving.com. The minimum text donation is £1 and all donations must be in whole pounds sterling. The maximum text donation allowed is £10 for all mobile operators. Donations sent via text will usually incur your standard text message fee. Please refer to your tariff for details of your standard text message fee.

Many thanks

 
Oban MRT featured on BBC Landward
Public News
Written by Ross Lilley   
Monday, 31 October 2011 21:46
Friday 4th November.
 
BBC 2 at 7pm.
 
Landward will feature Sarah Mack being rescued from Appin caves and then tyroleaned across the gorge
by Oban MRT.
Last Updated on Monday, 31 October 2011 21:51
 
Callout - Search for two lost walkers - Ben Achallader - 14 January 2012
Callout Information
Written by Ross Lilley   
Sunday, 15 January 2012 23:19

The team were called out  around 7pm to search for two walkers who had got benighted and lost in cloud on the Ben Achallader - Ben a Creachain ridge. They were not carrying head torches, map or compass and lost their bearings in the dark and cloud.

Several pairs of team members began searching the ridge from either end. Fortunately for the lost walkers one of them managed to download a smart phone app that allowed him to find their latitude and longtitude co-ordinates via his phone GPS. The callout manager had been in touch with them when the callout first came in and so they had his home phone number. They called this and gave their co-ordinates to his wife who relayed them to the callout manager via Oban police. He converted them to ordnance survey grid references and pinpointed them on top of Ben a Creachain. He then radio'd the teams on the hill to tell them to make for the walkers location. They were eventually found just before midnight, cold but otherwise well, and escorted off the hill by 2am.

 
Callout - Walker with ankle injury - Ben Sguillard - 18 December 2011
Callout Information
Written by Ross Lilley   
Sunday, 18 December 2011 23:59

Callout came at 1539. 46 year old male with possible broken ankle on Northern slopes of Ben Sguillard. Had got into difficult steep ground on way off the top, tripped and fell, injuring his ankle.

Rescue 177 helicopter from HMS Gannet, Prestwick joined the team at 1705 and flew 3 members up the hill. They were winched down to casualty along with winchman and gave him treatment before he and everyone were all winched back on board and brought back to rv. Casualty was then taken to Belford Hospital in Fort William where he was found to have a bad sprain and fortunately no fracture. Everyone returned home by 7pm.

 

 

 
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