Linville Central Rescue Squad
Ambulance And Ems Services
Why pick this one
Linville Central Rescue provides free emergency medical and technical rescue services in Avery County, including MRT-1 mountain rope rescue and K9 searches.
Best for
- Emergency medical response in Avery County
- Vehicle and machinery extrication
- Mountain and rope rescues near the Blue Ridge Parkway, Grandfather Mountain, or Appalachian Trail
- K9 searches for lost or missing persons
- Swiftwater, flood, and ice rescue
- Backcountry medical support
- Event EMS standby
Look elsewhere if
- Routine non-emergency medical transportation
- Non-emergency services unrelated to medical response, rescue, or search operations
Specialties
- Vehicle and machinery extrication
- Mountain rope and technical rescue
- K9 tracking, area search, and human remains detection
- Swiftwater, flood, and ice rescue
- Backcountry medical services
Certifications
- North Carolina Emergency Rescue Technicians Certification
- North Carolina Emergency Management MRT-1 technical and rope rescue recognition
- State and national certifications in technical rope rescue, land search and rescue, water rescue, snow and ice rescue
- Emergency medical responder, EMT, and paramedic certifications
What makes them different
- Private, all-volunteer rescue squad serving Avery County for over fifty years
- Never charges for emergency, technical rescue, backcountry medical, or auxiliary EMS services
- Mountain technical rescue team is one of five teams recognized by North Carolina Emergency Management as MRT-1
- K9 teams have worked searches in 41 counties across five states
- Provides mountain, K9, swiftwater, flood, and technical rescue assistance throughout western North Carolina
- Emergency
- Available
- Serves
- Linville
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 1940 Linville Falls Hwy, Newland, NC 28657
- Phone
- +18287332346
- Website
- http://linville-centralrescue.org/
Services
- Emergency medical care
- Technical rescue
- Search and rescue
- Auxiliary EMS
- Event standby
- Water rescue
- Lost-person searches