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4x4 Response - Surrey?
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: thermidorthelobster on September 01, 2008, 20:07:07 ---You're in luck...
http://www.hampshire4x4response.co.uk/
I'm only about 1/2 a mile from Berkshire and 3 miles from Hampshire, so I'm tempted to ask to join them!
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Looks good, but if it got that bad, I'd probably have been called in anyway. In all fairness, from what I've seen of Southern bad weather, I'm not too fussed. The worst that happens down here might just make a Norfolk man put a vest on under his shirt!
Disco Matt:
Wessex 4x4 Response have managed to get invited to a large emergency planning exercise "Exercise Equinox" run by Wiltshire CC. Nobody (apart from the EPO and other officials) knows what it will be about but the grapevine suggests it will be big.
So there would be some call for 4x4 Response down there, but as LSP suggests if you're in emergency services work already then you'd probably be scrambled with your work hat on rather than your volunteer one!
Silvery Thing:
I have heard of these response groups but I fail to understand what good they could do :-.
I used to be in the emergency services and I still don't know what good they could do or what aid they could give 8-[
Please enlighten me!
Disco Matt:
Mostly we exist to provide logistical support - for example, delivering trailerloads of bottled water for the Red Cross during last year's flooding. Groups have been involved in transporting other volunteer search and rescue bods such as the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team, along with the obvious ones such as getting health visitors et al through their rounds when heavy snow or flooding defeats their usual vehicles.
We are still working on acceptance by user bodies, many of which are wary of a new volunteer group. The message is getting through however as those that have worked with us are invariably satisfied with the results. If you look on the News section of the National forum you can see what sort of things we get called for.
Powys 4x4 Response raised £1000 for the Welsh Air Ambulance during June/July this year. I think that's something worth celebrating!
J.D.:
--- Quote from: thermidorthelobster on September 01, 2008, 20:07:07 ---You're in luck...
http://www.hampshire4x4response.co.uk/
I'm only about 1/2 a mile from Berkshire and 3 miles from Hampshire, so I'm tempted to ask to join them!
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Im the founder and coordinator for Hants and Berks 4x4 Response, so feel free to ask any questions or join up.
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