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Jaguar Land Rover has sealed its partnership with Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) with a donation of a Land Rover Discovery to MREW as the British carmaker extended its support to emergency and disaster preparedness. MREW has taken delivery of the Land Rover Discovery, which will join its fleet of lifesaving vehicles. The handover was witnessed by a very special guest and Patron of the charity, The Duke of Cambridge accompanied by The Duchess of Cambridge who were visiting the Solihull manufacturing plant where the vehicle is built.
This is the latest vehicle to be donated to emergency and disaster preparedness partnerships, helping to save lives and support communities around the world. The liveried Discovery was received by 10 volunteers from the Mountain Rescue team who were at Jaguar Land Rover’s flagship manufacturing plant to familiarise themselves with the vehicle’s all-terrain technology and get some expert off-road tuition on the purpose built Land Rover Experience Adventure Zone off-road track.
Simon Thresher, from the Mountain Rescue team said: “Mountain rescue team members are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to recover climbers from precipitous crags, reunite lost walkers with their pals and ensure injured and sick casualties are safely delivered into vital hospital care.
“Land Rover is a great partner for us and we are delighted to have a new Discovery on our fleet”.
Last year MREW were deployed to 1,812 callouts, helping 1,785 people using a total of 81,778 volunteer hours. In fact there were only 14 days in 2016 without a mountain rescue callout in England and Wales. The team’s work also extends beyond mountains, regularly helping in the search for missing children and vulnerable adults, searching river banks and swift water, and wading chest-deep through flooded urban streets aiding swimmers, kayakers and devastated homeowners.
Mark Cameron, Land Rover Experiential Marketing Director said: “Land Rover has a long and rich heritage of supporting projects in the most challenging and remote environments around the world. We are delighted therefore that this group of volunteers will be supported by Land Rover to continue their incredible work.”
