Dundonnell rescue team takes delivery of new £50K vehicle
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A MOUNTAIN rescue team which covers a huge swathe of Ross-shire has taken delivery of a new £50,000 command and control vehicle to help members meet greater challenges.
Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team's new 4x4 will help the volunteers do their job more effectively.
Team leader Iain Nesbitt said “Our prime purpose is, at the request of Police Scotland, to save lives on the hills.
"This vehicle will help us do this more effectively, bringing together all modern means of communication across our extensive and often remote terrain. We’ll have better links with emergency service partners and team members on the ground and will be able to stay on station in a much greater degree of safety and comfort than was previously feasible.”
The new MAN TGE 3.180 van replaces a nine-seat minibus gifted to the team by the Great Wilderness Challenge charity in 2009.
The team has some 38 volunteers on its call-out list and covers an area extending to nearly 10 per cent of Scotland’s land area, including many well-known peaks such as An Teallach, Beinn Dearg and Ben Wyvis.
The van was put to good use to co-ordinate DMRT’s part in the search for a missing person
at Fanellan near Beauly this month.
