Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team - Plymouth

02/09/2026

🚨 Search and Rescue isn't made up of superheroes. 🚨

It's made up of ordinary people who choose to volunteer their time to help others.

Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team Plymouth is now recruiting trainees for our 2026/27 intake.

Whether you're an office worker, teacher, student, engineer, tradesperson or retiree, what matters most is your attitude.

We'll provide the training.

You provide the commitment.

Together we'll help develop the skills needed to search for missing people, support casualty rescues and assist the emergency services across Dartmoor and the surrounding area.

Interested?

🔗 Apply here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/RWUy2T0Nwr

02/09/2026

My name is Alannah & I'm a mountain rescue volunteer for Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team Plymouth (DSRTP).

DSRTP are a charity fully funded by donations from kind supporters like yourselves and completely ran by amazing volunteers.

This year I am going to walk the High Moor Link which runs from Buckfastleigh to Tavistock. This route is around 37km long, covering rough, boggy and hilly terrain over some of Dartmoor's most beautiful landscapes. I've never attempted anything like this before and if you know me, you know how much I hate cardio!

During the walk I will be carrying a full kit bag, which contains everything I have on me whenever we get a call out. All the kit plus water and, most importantly, snacks, this will probably weigh around 10kgs. This will be my toughest challenge yet.

Mountain Rescue England and Wales
Plymouth Live
Dartmoor National Park




Any amount you can donate to DSRTP and my crazy walk would be much appreciated 🙏🏽

Help Alannah Mortimer-Hampson raise money to support Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team Plymouth

31/08/2026

🚨 Could you be our next trainee? 🚨

When the phone rings, our volunteers leave work, family dinners, warm beds and evenings with friends to help people they have never met.

Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team Plymouth is recruiting for our 2026/27 trainee intake.

We're looking for people from all walks of life who are willing to learn, work as part of a team and give back to their community.

As a trainee you'll receive training in:

🧭 Navigation
🔎 Search techniques
🚑 Casualty care
📻 Radio communications
🧗 Rope work
🤝 Teamwork and leadership

No previous Search and Rescue experience is required. We'll teach you the skills.

What we can't teach is commitment, reliability and a genuine desire to help others.

Think that's you?

🔗 Apply here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/RWUy2T0Nwr
Find out more: https://dsrtplymouth.org.uk/join-us

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30/08/2026

🚨🚨 Call Out 🚨🚨

At 01:15 hours this morning, we had a full team callout to assist a competitor who was struggling to continue in the Manumit Dartmoor 50

Team volunteers, who were assisting with the event and had already completed a long day on the Moors, managed to locate the casualty and provided first aid, whilst other team members brought the stretcher and other emergency equipment that was required.

Thank you to Devon & Cornwall 4x4 for your assistance, not only with the event, but with the call out as well 🙏🏽

The casualty was successfully carried across the Moors to a waiting Landrover, then driven off the Moors.

The team stood down at 06:00 hrs





Dartmoor National Park
Mountain Rescue England and Wales

Devon & Cornwall 4x4 Response

29/08/2026

We would like to wish all competitors for the 50k and 50mile all the luck in the Manumit 50 today.

Good luck to Will Kate and the rest of the team at Manumit for all their hard work, it is really appreciated 🤙🤙

A big thank you also has to go to Devon & Cornwall 4x4 for their support 🙏🏽




Dartmoor National Park
Plymouth Live

24/08/2026

Our Gutter Tor Dartmoor Search & Rescue Plymouth, memorial plaque has been updated on the trig point with two colleagues we lost this year.

RIP Alastair Clement & Richard Thomas 🙏🏽

Thank you Colin Sturmer & Richard Thorne for organising this touching update.




Mountain Rescue England and Wales
Dartmoor National Park

21/08/2026

19/08/2026

On Sunday we attended the Greenbank Fire Station Open Day and it was a special day for Neil Handley.

Neil joined the then Plymouth City Fire Brigade in 1972 serving 33 years in total and was stationed at Greenbank on Blue Watch for 24 years.

Thank you Neil for your service in the Fire Brigade and Dartmoor and rescue Plymouth 🙏🏽

Can you spot Neil in his Watch photo ?

Mountain Rescue England and Wales
Dartmoor National Park
Plymouth Live
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Community Safety and Prevention

16/08/2026

Today we will be at the Greenbank Open day from 11:00 - 15:00.

If you are attending the Fire Station, please pop by and say hello.




Devon Live
Plymouth Live
Mountain Rescue England and Wales
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Community Safety and Prevention

04/08/2026

Thank you for a wonderful course, we truly appreciated being invited 🙏🏽