Covid pandemic putting search and rescue units under pressure
The recent missing person search along the River Backwater has served to highlight the importance of voluntary search and rescue units and the key role they play in assisting the emergency services during operations of this kind. Run on a voluntary basis, these units receive little or no statutory funding, relying almost exclusively on fundraising events, donations from the public and the money members spend from their own coffers to remain operational. Like so many other voluntary organisations they have been hit hard by the Covid pandemic, with the cancellation of fundraising events meani...
Source: independent.ie