RNLI Flood rescue team news

Workers down tools and take up rock and roll for the RNLI

Joanna Quinn

A group of keen musicians from Toolstation have taken on a major musical challenge to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Nine workers from the Bridgwater-based firm have decided to try to create a new band in just five weeks...

RNLI invite supporters inland to Sea Our Services for SOS Day 2012

Amy Caldwell

The RNLI are urging the residents of Plymouth and surrounding areas to come and Sea Our Services on Saturday 28 January as they bring their lifesaving equipment inland to the city centre for the charity’s biggest fundraising event, SOS Day 2012*.

From 9am until 5pm, the RNLI will set up an exciting display of equipment stationed on the city centre piazza including; a D-class inshore lifeboat, an RNLI lifeguard Rescue Water Craft, Flood Rescue kit and tractors used to launch the charity’s lifeboats...

UPDATE: Kessock lifeboat crew search water for submerged car

Dan Holland

The volunteer lifeboat crew from RNLI Kessock has been helping today in a search of the Caledonian Canal in Inverness following the report of a car being driven into the water.

The volunteers were alerted at 11...

RNLI New Brighton lifeboat volunteers train for RNLI Flood Rescue Team

Bob Warwick

Three volunteer crew members from RNLI New Brighton have just completed a demanding training course for specialist lifesaving skills to assist in Flood Rescue.

On the course they learned news skills and enhanced the existing ones required to deal with inland flooding...

Berwick and Seahouses RNLI crews test their swift water techniques

Hazel Bettison

RNLI crews from Berwick and Seahouses lifeboat stations tested their swift water techniques, and now form part of a 40-strong Flood Rescue Team (FRT), ready to respond to incidents anywhere in the country.
John Campbell from Berwick, and Marc Pearce and Karen Aiery from Seahouses set off for the RNLI divisional base in Stockton...

Teesside RNLI volunteers in Flood Rescue Team exercises on River Tees

Dave Cocks

RNLI Flood Rescue Team volunteers from across the Teesside area have been putting their lifesaving skills to the test at the Tees Barrage International White Water Centre this weekend – the second anniversary of the Cockermouth floods, when RNLI crews helped rescue more than 200 people.
Twenty of the charity’s volunteer crew members from lifeboat stations around the coast, including Hartlepool, Redcar and Staithes and Runswick, have spent the weekend learning and improving the specialist skills required to deal with inland flooding...

RNLI Flood Rescue Team exercise enhances lifesaving skills on Cockermouth floods anniversary

Alison Levett

Media opportunity
When: Saturday 19 November, 1-2pm.
Where: Tees Barrage International White Water Centre, Tees Barrage Way, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 2QW...

RNLI rowers raise £9,000 for charity's flood rescue efforts

Pamela Saunders

A team of Poole-based RNLI staff and supporters have raised £9,000 for the lifesaving work of the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team by taking part in the 21 mile Great River Race, London’s River Marathon. The RNLI team took on the hefty challenge in the three tonne William Riley – a Thames class 34ft self righting lifeboat built in 1909...

RNLI Flood Rescue Team training exercise enhances lifesaving skills for volunteers

Joanna Quinn

The RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team, supported by Toolstation, honed their skills during two days of training this weekend. Forty-three of the charity’s volunteers tested their skills in various disciplines in and around the RNLI’s headquarters in Poole...

St Asaph RNLI technician sets his sights overseas

Danielle Rush

Tim Brodie, who is part of a team which ensures RNLI lifeboats around the Welsh coast are in a constant state of readiness to respond to emergencies, has joined the charity’s international Flood Rescue Team. The new voluntary role will mean Tim could be called upon at any time to assist in flood disasters anywhere in the world...