find out who we are and what STAR team does

             SEARCH TECHNICAL AND RESCUE TEAM

ABOUT US

 

Star search and rescue was formed in late 2007 by Mark Jeffers R.N.

STAR as the acronym states is

Search, Technical, And, Rescue.

We are a highly trained, profesional and motivated volunteer rapid response team based in Warrington, Cheshire.

We are all volunteers who give our time to train and respond to emergencies, at the request of the statutory emergency services.

Our skills are:-

  • Ø Land missing person search techniques
  • Ø Scenes of crime or evidence searches
  • Ø Low angle Rope access
  • Ø Casualty care and extraction
  • Ø Water incident response
  • Ø Support to the emergency services- including CBRN to 
  •        the NHS standard

The team is based in Warrington, Cheshire but we are available to every fire and rescue service in the uk through our affiliations with IFRA and DEFRA.

we are forming partnerships with a wide variety of groups both locally and also nationaly as members of IFRA, one of those is our training with 22 squadron RAF SAR at valley.