Safety on Dartmoor Day

Local rescue charities and branches of emergency services, National Trust and Dartmoor National Park Authority are holding their second safety on Dartmoor day at Lydford Gorge near Tavistock on Sunday 23 June between 10am and 4.30pm.

On the day, there will be the opportunity to look round fire engines, police cars and ambulances plus meet the local fire fighters, police officers, air ambulance crew and rescue dogs.

The air sea rescue helicopter will pop in for an appearance during the day as well as the police Oscar 99 and Devon Air ambulance, if jobs allow.  There will be a flypast by a World War Two Spitfire to salute all the emergency services on Dartmoor due at 1pm.

Fay Langston, Visitor Services Officer at Lydford Gorge says: "This is a great opportunity for visitors and locals to visit for free and come and meet people who run our local emergency services on Dartmoor and to see first hand how they carry out rescues."

The day will also include live rescues from the gorge and demonstrations, including red watch cliff rescue from Camelshead Rescue and Dartmoor Rescue.  There will also be an opportunity to meet the Dartmoor Rescue dogs and have a go on emergency simulator machines.

Dartmoor National Park Authority Ranger Service is pleased to be involved with the safety on Dartmoor day at Lydford Gorge.

Rangers work in partnership with the emergency services and rescue charities, sharing information and training in order to provide a better service to the public, ensuring a co-ordinated approach to tackling incidents in Dartmoor National Park. Come along on 23 June and find out more about the work of the Dartmoor National Park Rangers.

A great day out for all the family!  Free admission.

For further details of the event please visit http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lydford-gorge or call 01822 820320 or http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk