We are a group of like minded people sharing a common goal of closer liaison with existing professional emergency services. We aim to be recognised as an efficient volunteer technical rescue resource in the Upper Hutt and greater Wellington area. Having started with nothing we are now a fully equipped mobile emergency response team approximately 20 in number. The team has a wide skill base to draw from and has members from suburbs other than Upper Hutt in its number. The team is funded from private and public sources enabling it to provide services to the community.

We provide trained rescue and first aid assistance to the Upper Hutt Community, assisting professional organisations in the event of a civil disaster as required with rescue and first aid. The team meets once a week to train enhancing their skills in first aid, technical rope work, casualty handling, radio communications and community relations. Most of all we have fun.

Simple answer YES. The team is always looking for more enthusiastic people who want to learn how to deal with emergency situations in the community and provide assistance to the other professional emergency agencies. Learning and applying new skills is only the half of it, having fun learning is the other and doing something you might not normally do. Come along and see if this is for you or talk to someone about the team (they are the ones in the blue overalls).

Time:     Mondays at 7:30pm
Where:  Park Street Depot, Park Street, Upper Hutt (North of Maidstone Max)

Upper Hutt Community Rescue has a range of light rescue equipment, enabling the team to undertake a range of tasks in almost any location. A sample of the equipment held is as follows:

2 x L300 Van (4X4 with recovery equipment) 3 x Trailers 2 x Basket stretchers 4 x Spinal boards 2 x Furley stretchers 3 x Gurrneys 2 x Scoop stretcher 1 x Sked 4 x Large tents 4 x 3m ladders 16 x handheld Kenwood UHF radios 1 x VHF set on local Civil Defence net 1 x ground anchor system for rescue from heights. 1 x abseil equipment including 300+ metres of rope 20 x First Aid kits (Individual) 6 x First Aid kits (Incident incl 02) 2 x AED 1 x Flood and Swiftwater Response Trailer (incl Raft)

In addition to this there is a large amount of personal equipment held by individual team members that supplement this list.

The people and organisations that have helped the Upper Hutt Community Rescue team get to where it is today.

Every sponsors contribution is important and valued by the organisation, and some sponsors have contributed greatly with sponsorship of product and services that exceed NZD$10,000 and for this the organisation thanks them specially by having logos displayed on vehicles and other places as agreed with sponsor.

Major Sponsors

TeamTalk Limited
New Zealand's number one mobile radio company. We supply fast, effective communications for people on the move. We provide communications solutions to emergency services, taxi companies, trucking and transport companies, security firms and a variety of large and small vehicle fleet operators all over New Zealand.

Mobile radio is our business - it's all we do and that's why TeamTalk is the number one mobile radio company in New Zealand.

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Tait Mobile Radio (Wgtn)

Supply the the radio units and the fitting and maintenance.

Other Contributing Sponsors

Alphabetical order

• Community Trust
• Dwights Canvas Goods
• Emergency Management Academy of New Zealand (EMANZ)
• FV Evans and Sons
• Neptune
• O'Connell & Co Accountants
• PPG
• Richardson Chapman Lawyers
• Rimutaka Licencing Trust
• Serco Project Engineering Ltd (SPEL)
• Sign and Stripes Graphics
• Upper Hutt City Council