When something goes badly wrong in the Tweed — a car into a tree at 2am, a fall on a cliff face — it’s often volunteers who answer the call. Tweed Community Clubs is proud to stand behind the Tweed District Rescue Squad.
“I love Tweed District Rescue because it is a family environment,” says squad captain Drew Carr, a volunteer of more than twenty years. “We rely on each other on every job — with their knowledge, with their skills — because it can make the difference between a successful rescue or not.”
Motor vehicle collisions are the squad’s most common callout, and in the “Valley of Contrasts” they’re also a busy vertical-rescue unit. Drew tells the story of a 2am activation on Clothiers Creek Road: a significant collision with a tree, a technical rescue, and a patient who left the scene in a bad way. “He actually reached out to us quite a few months later, and we’ve since heard he’s making a full recovery… His wife was expecting a baby only a matter of months after that collision. It’s the big reason why we continue to do what we do — locals helping locals.”
Growing capability, always recruiting
The squad is preparing to take delivery of a new heavy rescue vehicle and is fitting it out with new equipment to lift its capability across the Tweed Shire. They’re always calling for new volunteers — operational members, and non-operational members who help with fundraising and keeping the fleet running. As Drew puts it: “There is a role in this family for everyone.”
“We’ve helped countless people, but we couldn’t have done that without the support of locals — and the local clubs, of course. They have contributed to a lot of the assets that we currently have here… without the support of our local community, particularly the clubs, we just simply wouldn’t be here.”
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