MAYO MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM
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OUR HISTORY
Mayo Mountain Rescue Team was founded in the late 1980s as part of the Western Mountain Rescue Team. At the start activity was low with few callouts and little organisation and training. In 1996 MMRT recruited many new members and had a total of 35 members. From there training schedules were put in place and fund-raising committees organised.
Since then the team has gone from strength to strength with a core group of long serving members and a waiting list of new applicants to join each year as some existing members are forced to cut back due to other commitments.
All but the newest members have Mountain Skills Training and First Aid to REC and Advanced REC level. Whilst many members also have partaken in Cliff Rescue, Rigging for Rescue, Search Management, Party Leader and Mountain Leadership Training. The equipment has also vastly improved with new lighter stretchers, vacuum splints, radios and a Land Rover, for use as an Ambulance and Mobile Base, being purchased. 2007 will see the commissioning into service of our new purpose built communications centre and mobile base. All of this has been achieved because of the commitment of the members that make up the team.
Mayo Mountain Rescue Team is a Voluntary Organisation. It is comprised of hillwalkers and mountaineers from all over Mayo and even further afield. The team responds to emergency callouts predominantly on Croagh Patrick with up to 80% of all annual callouts being focused on the pilgrimage mountain as well as out main annual focus of Reek Sunday where MMRT coordinate the activities of all MR Teams attending for the pilgrimage of up to 20,000 people climbing on this one day at the end of July. However MMRT have also being involved in various other outdoor events throughout the county such as the Focus Ireland 4 peaks Challenge and the Gael Force Adventure Race based in the Westport Area as well as participating in HSE West Major Emergency Planning and Training Exercises