Cornwall Search and Rescue Team

As a team, we deal with a wide range of call outs, each requiring specialist skills and equipment.

Missing and Lost Person Searches

The team attends around 30 searches each year. Many of these will be for missing vulnerable people and will involve working alongside other emergency services. This forms the vast majority of the workload. Our search managers coordinate operations with the police, and some searches can last for days and involve numerous resources and dozens of searchers.

Casualty Rescue

Equipped as a mountain rescue team, the ambulance service regularly calls on the team to assist with evacuations from remote locations including crags, moorland and woodland.

Mine Rescue

Cornwall's industrial past is visible wherever you go, with iconic mine buildings and tourist attractions throughout the county. Below the surface however are miles of passages and shafts which attract explorers and enthusiasts. We are a member team of the British Cave Rescue Council, responding to a handful of incidents each year requiring very specialist skills and equipment such as air monitoring and rope access.

Swiftwater Rescue

With flooding becoming increasing common, the team has utilised its waterside searching skills in to an experienced swiftwater rescue team which has responded to flooding in urban areas across Cornwall.