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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🌘🌒 S O L A R E C L I P S E 🌒🌘 This wonderous image was taken during this evening's incredible #solareclipse One of the team managed to snap this on their Motorola Star tac flip phone on a long exposure from the top of Core Caramac. Absolutely perfect timing for this. #FlipPhone #jurassicsnaps

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🚜👑 Royal Three Counties Show 👑🚜 We're all set up and looking forward to seeing you over the next three days at Three Counties Show. If you're going to the show, please pop along and say hi. Maybe have a go at throwline challenge, sit on a quad bike for those amazing photos.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

CALLOUT Specialist Search Teams are en route to support @westmerciapolice with the search for a highly vulnerable missing person in the Malvern area.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In readiness for the #Eurovision finals later, the team has been practicing a very complex dance move on a quad bike. Hopefully this move won't take off, but if it does, you will know who started the craze off.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🚔🚘 Car Show 🚘🚔 We are out and about at Shrewsbury College at their Past Fast and Future auto show today. If you're attending, please pop along and say hi. Maybe try your luck with the throwline challenge.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist kayak teams are en route to the Bridgnorth area to locate a high risk missing person.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Redditch area to locate a high risk missing person.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist kayak search teams are en route to locate a high risk missing person in the Bridgnorth area.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

HEREFORD We're pleased to announce we now have an operational base in Hereford. As our membership has grown in the area, along with our operational work, we have now moved to storing one of our response vehicles and essential equipment to allow swifter response to callouts.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

👣🚶‍♀️ Fitness Walk 🚶‍♀️👣 Last week the crew carried out two fitness walks over two beautiful landmarks, the wonderful Wrekin and the mighty Malverns. The walks are a fantastic opportunity for crew to get together in a non deployment setting and for our very latest volunteers to meet the wider team.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist land and Kayak teams are en route to locate a high risk missing person in the Shrewsbury area.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Shrewsbury area to locate a high risk missing person.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🎉🧭 Absolutely Magnificent 🧭🎉 We are incredibly pleased to report that 17 intrepid recruits passed their operational assessments today. Let's show some appreciation to our latest volunteers and to all the training team who got them to this point. YOU ARE EPIC 🎉🎉🎉

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

H A P P Y M O T H E R ' S D A Y A huge shout out to all the mum's out there that do so many fantastic deeds. To the mums in the team, to the mum's who support the team and just fantastic mums everywhere. Enjoy your special day ❤️

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Shrewsbury area to locate a high risk missing person.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🧭 Day One Navigation Training 🧭 Our intrepid cohort of recruits took to the beautiful Shropshire hills for the first day of their Bronze NNAS The good people over at Creative Outdoors ensured our volunteers have the navigation skills needed for operational deployment.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🥉 Bronze Supporter 🥉 The team would like to say thank you to The Dave Turnock Golf Society for becoming an amazing Bronze Supporter of our community based volunteer team. In the photo you can see the Chairman, Steve Roper, Dave, our kayak lead and fundraising officer Andy. Such fantastic people 😍

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist kayak teams are en route to locate a high risk missing person in the #evesham area.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist water teams are en route to the #evesham area to locate a high risk missing person.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist land and drone teams are en route to locate a highly vulnerable missing person in the #droitwich area.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

What. A. Fantastic. Day. Our volunteers have had an incredible day's training in the beautiful Wyre Forest - Forestry England It was so great to see our recruits put all of their newly acquired skills into a number of realistic scenarios.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📷🌈 What. A. Picture 🌈📷 Right time, right place. This incredible photo was taken by one of our epic volunteers during their day job earlier. We thought it was just too good not to share.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Market Drayton area to locate a high risk missing person. We are joined by incredible volunteers from Staffordshire Search and Rescue Team Cheshire Search and Rescue Warwickshire Search and Rescue

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🧭 Navigation 🧭 Last night the team took to the woods for a training session on navigation and communication. Navigation through woodland in the dark poses many challenges, especially when just using a map and compass. Bearings, pacing & map to ground all come into play on this kind of exercise.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

❄️🌨️Storm Goretti🌨️❄️ Our volunteers have been out and about across Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire this morning. We are super lucky to have some beautiful scenery and magnificent creatures right on our doorstep and our volunteers have been busy with their Nokia 3210 camera phones.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🎉🎉 Happy New Year 🎉🎉 We would like to wish you the happiest of years for 2026. A massive thank you to YOU, that's right, YOU, reading this. Thanks for all the support over the last year. We are sending this from our trusty 3210 early, just in case the networks get overloaded later. #IYKYK

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

⛑️🚨More Mayoral adventures.🚨⛑️ Our volunteers and the Mayor of Shrewsbury have been joined by wonderful colleagues from Officialwmas and Shrewsbury Police and our wonderful ambassador Kirsty as part of our festive river patrols. We hope you're having a fantastic start of the weekend.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🏅 Patrolling with the Mayor 🏅 This evening our intrepid volunteers are joined by a special guest and friend of the charity, the Mayor of Shrewsbury We are one of the Mayor's charity of the year and we are super pleased that he could join our volunteers on our festive river patrols.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🔍 Search skills 🔍 This evening our latest cohort of trainee search technicians have headed to the wonderful Wyre Forest. This is a big first step into the dynamics of a missing person search. They'll be putting into practice the theory they have been swotting up over the past few weeks.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🤶🎄❄️ River Patrols❄️🎄🤶 Here are a few more pictures from last weekend's river patrols in #shrewsbury Our fantastic volunteers will be back out this coming weekend and are really looking forward to saying hello to you all.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🚨 Emergency Services 🚨 We were super pleased to be joined by Shrewsbury Police and Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service during last night's first river patrol in #shrewsbury Working in partnership to support the safety of our community during the festive season.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🚨River Patrols🚨 Starting on Friday 5th December, the team will commence the festive river patrols along the Severn in #shrewsbury We are looking forward to meeting you amazing people over the coming weeks. We would like to also thank those amazing organisations who have sponsored our volunteers.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Here's a little photo from the #Ironbridge Christmas lights switch on.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Droitwich area to locate a high risk missing person at the request of West Mercia Police

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Church Stretton area to assist with a casualty extraction.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Church Stretton area to assist Officialwmas with a casualty evacuation.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🍰🎂 C A K E S 🎂🍰 Now we've got your attention, the team will be attending "Teas to please" at All Saints Church, Little Stretton this coming Banj holiday Sunday and Monday. The team are under strict orders to ensure that there are some tasty treats left for you to enjoy. We hope to see you there

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Much Wenlock area in support of @officialwmas.bsky.social with a casualty evacuation.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

C A L L O U T Specialist land search teams are en route to the Cradley Heath area to locate a high risk missing person. We are working with volunteers from Staffordshire Search and Rescue Team and Severn Area Rescue Association - Tewkesbury in support of West Midlands Police and Dudley Police

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📝📝 J U S T F O R F U N 📝📝 Here's a wonderful little word search for you to complete and it might rescue you from a little boredom. ** Top Tip - Don't use a permanent marker on your phone/tablet screen.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Last week, we had the pleasure of meeting the High Sheriff of Shropshire Jane Trowbridge along with the Chief Fire Officer Simon Hardiman from Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service This was a fantastic opportunity to explain the great work that our volunteers carry out across the West Mercia region.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

C A L L O U T The team is en route to support Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service and West Mercia Police with an ongoing incident in The Wrekin area.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

C A L L O U T Last night, our volunteer team was contacted by west mercia police to help locate a missing person in #telford. Shortly after teams deployed, the misper was located by officers from West Mercia Police A huge thank you to our volunteers who devote their time to helping the community.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🎥 3 S E C O N D V I D E O 🎥 As we continue our focus on water safety, we thought we would share this 3 second video of a throwline, well, being thrownlined. According to the social media influenza's, 3 seconds videos are all the rage, so we expect this video to go virus 🎉😬🎉

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We are super pleased to be attending Shrewsbury Town open day and to speak with our community on the important work our volunteers carry out. #shrewsburytownfc

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Last night our team was contacted to assist in the extraction of an injured hiker from the Stiperstones. On arrival, paramedics were already on scene providing medical care to the casualty.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

H A P P Y P A R A M E D I C S D A Y We are super thankful for the paramedics who volunteer within the team, those we work with on callouts and to celebrate the absolutely amazing work that paramedics perform everyday. Thank you for your fantastic epicness 🎉🎉🎉

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Spaces available for the TOM JONES MEMORIAL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT on July 12 at Droitwich Spa Leisure Centre, WR9 0RZ. BOYS - U10, U11, U12, U13 GIRLS - U11, U12 - Medals & Trophies - Food & Ice cream vendors on site - Safe and secure sign-up via Tournify www.tournifyapp.com/live/tomjones25

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

H E A T S T R O K E O R E X H A U S T I O N As the country faces the hottest temperatures of the year, it's worth a moment of time to look at this handy infographic, maybe give it a share or two.

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West Mercia Search and Rescue @westmerciasar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

S L O - M O The team are back at the Royal Three Counties Show today. There will be more throwline antics, more climbing wall action, more photo opportunities on the quads and kayaks. We're opposite the STIHL stand. We might not have chainsaws and axes, but we've got incredible volunteers.

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