Hazardous Area Response Team

What is HART?

HART stands for Hazardous Area Response Team; HART is a team of specially trained paramedics who are capable of providing an ambulatory response to high risk environments and complex emergency situations.

HART Operates in close alliance with other agencies, such as LFRS/FRU and employs specialised teams equipped with extraordinary equipment, staffed by highly trained medical executives to perform such duties.

The Hazardous Area Response team are capable of responding to incidents such as:

Hazardous Materials - Working inside the inner cordon where hazardous materials are present, transporting patients with high-risk infectious diseases, for example symptoms of Poisoning.

Working at Heights - Providing a specialist response to patients taken ill at height, either on man-made structures or within the natural environment.

Confined Spaces / Urban Search And Rescue - Providing a specialist response to patients caught in enclosed spaces; following building collapses; where compromised atmospheres are present, where entrapment of patients is hampering the delivery of care.

Unstable Terrain & Water Rescue - Providing a specialist response to patients where rural access or difficult terrain is providing a specific challenge to the rescue and extrication effort or to patients caught in water environments, for example swift water rescue, or where urban or rural flooding has occurred.

Public Order - Working alongside TSG with building clearances, street clearances I.e Protests that can involve casualties, HART Public Order Team will assess patients once passed onto them, and continue working alongside TSG