Mountain Rescue Service

Having started its work as a small group of enthusiasts, today the Mountain Rescue Service is an important unit in the BRC structure aimed at reducing the number of accidents in the mountains. During the time of their regular duty hours, the mountain rescuers, all volunteers, render aid to victims of mountain accidents; they carry out complex rescue operations, and transport the victims from places hard to access, to a hospital.

The effective preventive work is an important element of the overall rescue activity. The Mountain Rescue Service provides daily information to the central and local media on weather situation in the mountains, this information being of great interest to skiers and tourists. School children are given general knowledge about safe behaviour in the mountains.

Since 1971 the BRC Mountain Rescue Service has been member of the International Federation of Mountain Rescue (IKAR).

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