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Harrow House Blast May 2008

HART teams from London and Yorkshire join forces at Harrow blast

13.05.2008

A specially trained HART Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team from Yorkshire joined the HART-IRU (incident Response Unit) team from London when a blast ripped through homes in Harrow, North London.

Steve Wheaton

WMAS appoints new Head of Specialist Operations and Major Incident Response

13.05.2008

West Midlands Ambulance Service?s preparations for dealing with a major incident have taken a step forward with the appointment of Steve Wheaton as Head of Specialist Operations and Major Incident ...

Terrorism insurance issue resolved for all ambulance personnel

09.05.2008

Ambulance trusts are now finally able to purchase commercial insurance to cover gaps in financial cover for staff who are injured or killed while responding to acts of terrorism.

HART gets front page lead in Intersec magazine

21.04.2008

An article by the HART training lead Dave Bull has been featured in Intersec magazine, with the HART story leading on the front page.

The team together after USAR training

NWAS and WMAS staff start USAR training

02.03.2008

The latest three-week intensive HART Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) training course has been completed by half of the paramedics selected for the HART programme from the West Midlands and North Wes...

HART 'TRAINING FACULTY' PROPOSED

18.02.2008

A new 'HART training faculty' designed to cope with the extensive training required to roll out HART across the country is being developed.

TWO NEW HART USAR TEAMS RECRUITED

16.02.2008

Recruitment for HART USAR paramedics in the North West and West Midlands ambulance service trusts is now completed and the first of two three-week residential courses has begun at the Fire Service ...

NCMCEVs being built at Fraser's

PODs MAKE WAY FOR MASS CASUALTY EQUIPMENT VEHICLES

15.02.2008

Twenty four National Capability Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles (NCMCEVs) - the next step up from Pods - will be rolling off the production lines in autumn 2008 for delivery to all ambulance trust...

HART-USAR TEAM ATTENDS WARWICKSHIRE FIRE

17.01.2008

The devastating fire at the Wealmoor Atherstone vegetable packing warehouse in Warwickshire in November 2007 provided the sad background to Yorkshire Ambulance Service?s HART-USAR (Urban Search And...

Recruitment drive for USAR paramedics gets under way

27.11.2007

The recruitment drive to find 15 HART-USAR paramedics for the North West and West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trusts is now under way.

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