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SERVICES
Trail Rescue Australia provides specialist services and products for the trail, outdoor, wilderness and emergency services sectors in remote and low-support environments. Our primary focus is Preventative Search and Rescue (PSAR) - building the knowledge, capability and support systems that help people operate safely and reduce the likelihood of incidents.
When specialist response is required, we also deliver rapid-response UAV search and rescue capability for complex terrain in support of police and emergency services.
OVERVIEW
Hikers, trekkers, Park Rangers and expedition groups face a range of direct and indirect risks when out on trails or wilderness areas ranging from dangerous wildlife, rough terrain, bushfires and transport risks. Critical to all positive SAR outcomes is the speed, identification and delivery of SAR services. This is substantially complicated in vast remote areas with limited regional resources. TRA can fill those capability gaps in support of the Police and
Emergency Services SAR Operations.
WHAT WE DO & HOW
WE PLAN
Information, Planning and Intelligence
WE TRAIN
Training and Skills development
WE SUPPORT
Field Support, Taskings and Ops
TRA offers a range of basic, advanced and specialised courses in advanced hiking and trekking skills, specialised field skills, survival, navigation, emergency signalling, trail medicine, self rescue and a wide range of other skills, knowledge and awareness to power up and strengthen your capability and resilience.
Trail Rescue Australia offers a 24/7 monitoring and/or overwatch service that provides hikers, trail runners, expeditions and groups. This pre-booked services is carried out with tracking devices, regular sched monitoring and check point confirmations. Essential for remote area solo activities.
5. SAR PATHFINDERS™
Specialist SAR pathfinder support using small, agile field teams, to ahead scout ahead and identify the most practical access, movement and extraction options for an incident area, including routes, staging areas, extraction points and landing zone points, helping agencies reduce delays & improve access decisions.
Specialist aerial capability for remote-area UAV operations, with advanced drone systems used for thermal search, aerial reconnaissance, real-time relay, illumination, broadcast, payload resupply and sustained UAV mission support. Service includes FOB support operations for Police SAR taskings.
Our team conducts on-ground trail and activity safety and response audits, SOP reviews, scenario training and post-incident reviews to test, refine and continuously improve your safety systems. We also assist hikers and trekking groups with safety and emergency planning for their hikes or treks.
Trail Rescue Australia provides critical resupply and contingency support when the loss of equipment, food, water, communications, medical consumables or time begins to threaten safety, operational continuity or self-recovery. This is a preventative and emergency-focused support capability.
Trail Rescue Australia provides baseline trail medical support (TMS) services that deliver first aid, preventative trail health care (PTHC), casualty monitoring, and trail evacuations. Advanced medical support provided by our partners Outdoor Wilderness Response
Trail Search and Rescue (SAR) standby and rapid-response teams for short-notice call-outs, deploying specialist UAV field teams equipped with advanced IR/thermal UAVs and operating alongside helicopters, ATVs and 4WDs, in support of Police and other emergency service–led search and rescue operations.
FROM THE FIELD
Actual footage and images of rescues, searches, terrain and conditions from the field
Image: UAV fire overwatch service. Fires on the Larapinta Trail can occur throughout the year.
Image: Fine dust in outback Australia causes a wide range of respiratory, wound & eye issues.
Image: Snakebite on the Larapinta Trail is very rare and low risk during winter. Pic: King Brown
Image: Zak Draco operating a drone on top of Upper Hugh Gorge in search for Alistair Thomson.
Video: Searching for a missing cross country trekker in typical terrain of the East Chewings Range, NT