The team's area in Wasdale includes England's highest mountain Scafell Pike
A former member of a mountain rescue team has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours.
Julian Carradice, who was team leader of the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team for 11 years, is appointed an MBE for his services to the team.
Mr Carradice joined the team, which is one of the Lake District’s busiest, in 1979.
He was a member of the team until earlier this year and was among rescuers at the centre of a bizarre event on Scafell in 2009 when he and other team members were treating a man who had fallen from one of the area’s accident blackspots, Broad Stand.
As they tended to the casualty, another dropped from the rocks above and landed on the rescuers.
Julian Carradice at work with the Wasdale team during a training exercise
Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team chair John Bamforth said: “Julian Carradice served as a team member of Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team for over 32 years after joining as a probationary member in November 1979.
“He was team leader for over 10 of those years and led the team through some of Cumbria’s most recent challenging times such as the Cockermouth floods in 2009 and the West Cumbria shootings in 2010.
“During those floods he was directly involved in several rescues as a part of a team of swiftwater rescue technicians sent by Wasdale MRT to form the multi-agency team in Cockermouth.
“He left the team earlier this year and still lives in the area.”
Mr Carradice works in the nuclear industry at Sellafield.
Mike
29 December 2012Congratulations to Mark (Keswick Mountain Rescue Team) Mark truly deserves this award!
Peter Holburt
29 December 2012Julian is still involved in Mountain Rescue work as a member of COMRU, which is affiliated to LDSAMRA. Therefore it is quite incorrect to say an 'ex mountain rescuer'. All COMRU Members are fully dedicated rescuers and to call them ex is derogatory.
Richard Warren
29 December 2012In order to ensure no further misundertanding or confusion about the above post I have posted the following.
Peter is correct in that COMRU (Cumbria Ore Mines Rescue Unit), which is a specialist mines rescue unit, is affiliated to and a member of LDSAMRA. Grough are also correct in their title which I am sure was not aimed at being derogatory to COMRU members.
LDSAMRA represents the 10 Lake District Mountain Rescue teams plus the two specialist units (Search Dogs LDMRSDA and COMRU). The majority, if not all LDMRSDA handlers are fully trained and qualified mountain rescuers. There are a number of fully active and qualified mountain rescue personnel within COMRU who also belong to one of the mountain rescue teams and maintain their position as fully active rescuers. There are others within COMRU who also provide a first class and dedicated mines rescue service for the county and adjacent regions but are not necessarily qualified mountain rescuers and do not profess to be. Their skills and training are very much focussed on the underground. This is a dedicated service available to all 10 teams in the county. COMRU covers the whole county and does not have a dedicated base at present.
Nationally, COMRU is a member of the British Cave Rescue Council which represents all the cave rescue organisations in the British Isles (15 member teams)
hope this clears up any misunderstandings.
Richard Warren
Chairman LDSAMRA
Noel Wood
02 January 2013Congratulations to Julian for his well deserved MBE, recognising over 30 years of service with MRT.