Severn Area Rescue Association - Wyre Forest Station

Home
United Kingdom
Kidderminster
Severn Area Rescue Association - Wyre Forest Station

Call Directions Website

Welcome to SARA Wyre Forest page. This page is monitored by SARA. News, callouts and events will be posted here.

SARA Wyre Forest is the SARA rescue station at Kidderminster. SARA - The Severn Area Rescue Station - is a Registered Charity Charity CIO 1193634 from 1 Jan 2022 (no 505504 pre December 2021). SARA is staffed entirely by volunteers and receives no statutory funding to provide its lifesaving services to the communities it serves locally and nationally. SARA's Mission Statement is:
To preserve life and property through the provision of a professionally trained specialist rescue service for marine and land search incidents.

1973 - SARA Founded at Tutshill nr Beachley, Chepstow.
1976 - Became a registered Charity
1985 - Became a Mountain Rescue Post
1986 - Sharpness Lifeboat Station opens
2005 - Wyre Forest Rescue Station opens
2007 - Tewkesbury Rescue Station opens
2016 - Newport Station opens.
2020 - Upton Rescue Station opens
2021 - Cotswolds Rescue Station (in Cirencester) opens

25/10/2026

Huge congratulations to Ollie, Jack C, Helen, Jon and Jack R on passing their Swift Water Rescue Technician course this weekend 👊

23/10/2026

🚨New Red Jackets🚨

After 8 months of training the first three of our 2026 trainees became operational last night and were issued with the highly coveted red jacket.

A huge congratulations to Jon, Ant and Jack 👊🏼

Watch this space if your interested in joining the team next year 👀

12/10/2026

Last weekend was a busy one with two days of training followed by a call-out.

On Saturday crew from Wyre Forest joined our other Severn Area Rescue Association stations at the South West England Rescue Association cross team training day. Several teams from across the region came together to train together on technical rescue skills, and medical scenarios.

Sunday then saw some of our 2026 trainees and operational crew head up onto a very sunny Clee Hill to complete their navigation training.

10/10/2026

📟 CALL-OUT 08/10/26 0418hrs

Land crew from Wyre Forest, alongside our other Severn Area Rescue Association, stations were deployed by Gloucestershire Constabulary to search for a missing person in the Dursley area.

During the search the missing person was located by a police officer and following an assessment by one of our team medics, was returned home safely.

3 crew were involved for 7 hours.

Call-out #21 in 2026.

(Stock image used)

01/10/2026

A huge thank you to sterlingpowerproducts for supplying us with a new inverter and battery charger unit for our Incident Support Unit enabling the vehicle to continue working as a crew and equipment carrier as well as a command unit.

26/09/2026

Crew were back on the water this week with the West Mercia Police Dog Unit for some training with their Drowned Victim Detection Dogs on SARA 8.

Huge thanks as always to Tingdene Marinas & Boat Sales at Upton for allowing us to launch.

19/09/2026

Thursday Night Training ⛑️

Search light season is definitely upon us. This week our trainees and operational crew were tasked with searching for a missing walker who was suspected to of fallen from height.

Once the missing person was located they were assessed by the team who suspected the casualty was suffering from a spinal injury.

The casualty was then immobilised by being placed in our vacuum mattress and was then extracted back to the road via stretcher.

18/09/2026

Medical Training 🩺

Last weekend some of our trainees and operational crew undertook there Outdoor First Aid course.

All of our crew are trained to this level to ensure that we can provide the right level of care to our casualties in any environment.

07/09/2026

Address

Stourport Road
Kidderminster
DY117FL

Telephone

0844 846 0226

Website

https://linktr.ee/sarawyreforest

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Severn Area Rescue Association - Wyre Forest Station posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.