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Mountain rescue safety tips

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Range Rover Blues:
I don't like the idea either, but mountain resuce are volunteers and at the moment they are being taken advantage of by people who obvioulsy don't know better.

Boggert:

--- Quote from: TDi90 on January 18, 2008, 20:21:52 ---its not RTA anymore  =; [-X

its and RTC - road traffic collision

correct me if im wrong  :kiss:

--- End quote ---

Its a RTI "Road traffic incident" Not that we actually bother saying that, it Crash, or what ever comes to mind.

Disco Matt:
I wonder if a decent TV advert campaign might help? Something nicely shocking - maybe show someone shivering with apparent hypothermia followed by a caption "Antarctica? No, Snowdon. British weather can kill the poorly equipped".

Sad part is, some people will ignore all the warning signs/leaflets/adverts you can throw at them!

vtrdaz:
I think a good idea - and one we adopt - be it MR , air ambulance , RNLI etc ,  whenever you see a collection - make a small donation , however small.
You personally might not need them , but somebody you know might.
In my eyes it's a small donation well spent - even though it is more likely to cover the rescues of the ill equipped and stupid............

hobbit:
The thing is they are like the RNLI solely funded by donations, unlike the government paid services

Can a charity charge for their services?

Yes the ambulance service can, as has been discussed

Also the foreign mountain rescue groups mentioned above are they charity or funded another way?

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