The Rescue last week at Balscadden Quarry was reported by a number of media sources including Irish Independent, Evening Herald, 98FM, City Channel, Fingal Independent and The Northside People. Extracts below.
Jan 28TH 2009
Missing teen sparks huge search and rescue operation
16-year-old eventually found at Balscadden Quarry
The extensive search got under way after garda alerted the Marine [...]
BALSCADDEN QUARRY, HOWTH - Howth Coast Guard undertook 3 hours of team training tonight at Balscadden Quarry. The unit was split into medical and evacuation crews, focusing on the successful location and steep ground lower-off of a casualty suffering serious injuries.
Scene Arrival Protocol
Comms Structures
Safety Lines
Technical Descent
Casualty Management
Photos of the exercise available here.
BALSCADDEN QUARRY, HOWTH - The 28 Irish Coast Guard volunteers stationed in Howth unit were paged by the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC Dublin) at 0900hrs this morning at the request of An Garda Siochana.
An Garda Siochana had been alerted to a missing 16 year old, in a potential life-threatening condition, somewhere on the coastline [...]
EAST OF IRELAND’S EYE, DUBLIN - This morning, Howth Coast Guard Boat provided two wet winching casualties for the Dublin based SAR Helicopter on exercise. Casualties were lifted from the sea by a winchman before being lowered back into place.
Yesterday at 15.09 Howth Coast Guard were requested to investigate a report from a member of the public of what looked like a liferaft washed up on Sutton beach. A volunteer went to the scene and on checking the debris discovered that it was a large underwater lifting bag of the type commonly used in [...]
In 2008 the Coast Guard responded to a total of 1876 incidents, which represents a 4% decrease from 2007. It was encouraging for all involved in marine rescue operations to see a drop in the overall number of incidents which is particularly noticeable in some leisure sector activities. This includes a 33% drop in sailing [...]
Howth were tasked today at 13.00 on request of Dublin MRCC to a car in need of assistance on Dollymount beach. It was caught in the sand on a rising tide. Three volunteers responded to the scene and removed the car and it’s occupants to safety.
Just as the volunteers were returning to the station at [...]
