Turangi Land SAR
Everywhere for Everyone.
Unpaid personnel with professional skill-sets, we operate when called upon by the NZ Police via 111 or Rescue Co-ordination Centre (beacons) to help in all weather.
28/09/2024
4x4 field refresher ✅ awesome day
16/08/2024
Last night during our AGM, Gary Davis retired from the group after 47 years of service. Thank you for all you have done and for your knoweldge and passion. Gary's briefcase was also left with the group and what an honour to have it with us with some awesome LandSAR history inside.
A huge thank you to our sponsors for the night, Tongariro Lodge, Repco Taupo, Animates and Taupo Hunting and Fishing
10/08/2024
Great day refreshing skills and catching up with other groups and agencies thank you to Peter Zimmer for making it happen 👍👍
15/06/2024
https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/350309276/echo-tracker-dog-shows-his-stuff-fieldays
When the goggles go on, Echo means business At home, he likes to curl up on the couch but as soon as he’s kitted out like he is at Fieldays, it’s all on.
14/04/2024
Sunday afternoon refresher
02/04/2024
Another successful Easter Sweep weekend on the thank you heaps to everyone involved
Land Search & Rescue New Zealand Land Search and Rescue provides Search & Rescue throughout New Zealand.
20/03/2024
It turns out sometimes Search Dogs are like toddlers... cover their ouchie with a cool dinosaur bandage and all is forgotten. Thanks Vetora Taupo, Echo will be back on track in no time.
12/03/2024
Another successful weekend training on the river
15/10/2023
Well done team Echo 10/10 👍👍
01/10/2023
Planning to walk the Tongariro Alpine Crossing this summer?
There have been some changes, and a new booking system is now live.
Bookings are not compulsory but are encouraged as we aim to better manage the consistent conservation pressures on the mountain and strengthen cultural and heritage values in the area.
We recommend that Visitors using any part of the track book in advance.
All the information can be found here - https://www.doc.govt.nz/tongariroalpinecrossing
26/09/2023
This is definitely going the extra mile. Today few of our team members, heard that a couple of dogs had …. A bit of an accident …. And of their own accord they decided to go and lend a hand to get the dogs out to safety. Thank you heaps team 👍👍
08/08/2023
Stretcher carry training night last night ✅
31/07/2023
Missing woman reunited with family as police praise 'massive' search effort Family relieved as woman found safe five days after being reported missing.
22/07/2023
Following a PLB activation on Mt Urchin Track a team of 5 was deployed overnight last night. Everyone was found safe and now back home. Thank you to Taupo Police and Helicopter Services for all the support.
18/07/2023
Another successful training night refreshing search techniques skills 🔦 🔦🔦
05/07/2023
Nothing like a wee walk up the Urchin track on a windy night. Thank you heaps for the lovely message….means heaps to us.
Thank you so so much!
I absolutely appreciate your time and effort. I’m super grateful that you all braved the cold and came to help me, I won’t forget you! But more importantly I didn’t realise you were volunteers! I’ll certainly be donating to you guys and be encouraging others to do the same! If there’s anyway I can also help with fundraising to support your work further I’d be happy to do this, we do a lot of this for work.
You were all so lovely, thank you for the amusing banter, dad jokes and informative dinosaur facts!.. thanks for making me smile!
I was so scared out there and you made everything feel better, thank you for keeping me safe. I absolutely appreciate you all!!!!
Hadley? Goodness, you deserve a massive shout out! Thank you for casually carrying me like I didn’t weigh lots 😂🤦🏽♀️ thanks for helping me down all the steep parts! (Thanks to the rest of the team for laughing quietly at my not so gracious exit down those final stairs)
Thanks too whoever drove my vehicle back and not stealing it coz it’s soooo cool 😂
Hope you all got home safe to your friends mulled wine stash haha, if you ever want to catch up I’m down often lol…. Plus I could likely do with more smiles, jokes, dinosaur facts and hand holding as I go on hikes haha (jokes)
But absolutely keen to buy any of you a drink or lunch anytime!
I promise I won’t get you to rescue me again, at least not this year 😂
Perhaps I need SAR friends haha
Add me on FB if you like 😉
(you can then see the views from the top before my mission took a downward turn lol)
Goodnight!
Have a fantastic week 😁
19/06/2023
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=716444903822261&id=100063702726648&mibextid=qC1gE
15/04/2023
Remembering the Mangatepopo canyon tragedy, 15 years ago today 🙏
The Mangatepopo Canyon tragedy was a flash flood that occurred on 15th April 2008 in the central North Island. Students and staff from Elim Christian College were at the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre during a gorge trip. The flash flood resulted in the death of six students and one teacher.
Lest we forget the young lives lost, those they left behind, the other people affected by the tragic events on that day and the Search and Rescue first responders, including local Land Search and Rescue volunteers, Police and DOC, who were first on the scene and helped with the body recovery 🧡
10/04/2023
Another Easter Weekend gone and of course plenty to do for our LandSAR volunteers up the Tongariro Alpine Crossing managing the Easter Sweep, to ensure everyone went home safe.
A huge thank you to all neighbouring groups and agencies who ‘jumped in’ to assist.
To name a few, Taihape LandSAR, Wanganui LandSAR, Taupo LandSAR, DOC, Taupo Police & Taranaki Air Ambulance.
As a group, we have also had an awesome training weekend with some of our experienced members sharing local knowledge / experiences to our new team members.
Again a huge thank you to everyone and don’t forget that you can help us making a difference too. https://givealittle.co.nz/org/turangi-search-and-rescue
04/04/2023
NZ Mountain Safety Council The Tongariro Alpine Crossing is the country’s most popular day walk. Taking day walkers on a journey across volcanic landforms surrounded by alpine scenery. The harsh environment combined with changeable weather it has the highest number of search and rescues of any track in Aotearoa.
01/04/2023
Another Saturday out and about for the team
19/03/2023
Busy week for the group with two jobs, first on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing and second for an overnight in Kaimanawa Forest Park. All the missing parties were located and are now back with families. A huge thank you to the Taupo Police, Helisika, Taupo Helicopter services and the Greenlea Rescue Helicopter for all the help.
LandSAR personnel - unpaid professionals
Who are the Turangi LandSAR personnel ?
Everyday people who care about helping the wider community. They are Parents, Workers, Recently retired folk, Employers, Business owners, Mortgage payers and Renters,..... busy people who make time to help out when called upon.
The best thing with such a broad mix of people, coming from a variety of backgrounds and professions, is that everyone brings some skills and thinking from their everyday lives to focus on one outcome; providing the best help to those in need.
To do the job to the standards that we expect of ourselves, we train in skills that are focused on the processes needed for Search and Rescue Operations. Each person finds their niche within the Team. Some are in the obvious roles of being out there and doing the actual searching or rescuing (yep, there is a difference), while others work in roles that provide the “thinking behind the doing”, also known as Search Management. The thinkers need the support of a less obvious number of folk, who work as radio operators, log-keepers, information gatherers, drivers, and equipment organisers. Because we never know when a Search and Rescue Operation will happen, or how long it will go on for, the Team needs several people for each role, or at least a bunch of people who can work in whatever role is needed at the time. Some of the team have no desire to be out in the cold and the wet at night, but they provide support to those who do. Others of us would rather be out in the dark, walking uphill in the rain, than trying to operate a computer and deal with the information coming by phone, email and radio.
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