Welcome to the website of Trossachs Search and Rescue

Our Bases
We have bases at Aberfoyle Fire Station courtesy of Central Scotland Fire & Rescue and at MOD Forthside, Stirling courtesy of the 7 Scots, The Royal Regiment of Scotland as well as a lock-up garage at Aberfoyle Motors.
Our team provides a range of specialist services that benefit communities across Scotland through our partnership agreements with Strathclyde Fire & Rescue, Central Scotland Fire & Rescue, The Scottish Ambulance Service and the British Heart Foundation. We also work in partnership with Strathclyde and Central Scotland Emergency Co-ordination Groups.
Urban Search and Rescue
TSART works in partnership with:
- Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service providing 24/7 Urban SAR dog cover for the 2.3 million people of Strathclyde; and
- Central Scotland Fire & Rescue Service providing 24/7 USAR Dog cover.
We also provide back up 24/7 USAR Dog cover to respond to incidents in Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service n support of Caithness and Sutherland Search Team, as part of our membership of the National Urban SAR Dog group (Scotland).
The team also provides an experienced, highly trained and equipped search and rescue team that has worked at the Stockline factory collapse in Glasgow, assisted in the search for a murder victim in Hull and has assisted HM Coastguard in the search for a missing fisherman at Portlethen, Aberdeenshire, not forgetting a protracted missing person search on South Uist as well as collapsed structure searches in Polmont and at Ayr Harbour
National Urban Search and Rescue Dog Group
We are part of the National Urban Search and Rescue Dog Group so the emergency services can be assured that the service provided is of an extremely high standard.