The Central Coast Rescue Squad – VRA Rescue NSW emerged as the top team in the 2024 State Road Crash Rescue Challenge held recently in Dubbo.
The annual event brings together teams from various road crash rescue organisations to hone their skills through competition in a variety of scenarios and complex rescues, and to foster excellence through the exchange of emergency response techniques and ideas.
Eighteen teams from around NSW such as the State Emergency Service, Fire and Rescue, the police, NSW Ambulance, Rural Fire Service, and Volunteer Rescue Association were put through their paces focussing on general land rescue, road crash rescue and first aid skills.
A learning symposium was held on May 24, followed by two days of challenges.
The Central Coast VRA squad took out first place as overall winners and ticked off a number of event placings: best overall technical team, best overall medical team, first place in controlled rescue, first place in the trauma challenge, third place in entrapped rescue and third place in the CPR challenge.
A team of seven from Wyong Fire and Rescue also competed and was placed second in the rescue challenge.