MULU: Sarawak’s one and only Mount Cave Search and Rescue Taman Negara Mulu or Mocsar was officially formed today with 11 members receiving their appointment letters from the State Fire and Rescue department (Bomba) director Khirudin Drahman.
The members of the newly formed team comprise tourist guides attached to the Mulu National Park and its general manager, Hein Gerstner.
According to Khiruddin, the team will be dealing with rescue and recovery operations or mountain and cave disasters or incidents involving wounded hikers in the mountains or caves within the area.
“The idea to form the team started after a Dutch man and a local tourist guide were swept away by a flash flood inside a cave in Mulu National Park on July 12 last year (2019),” he said.
The body of the tourist guide, Roviezal Robin, 20, was finally found in a location named the ‘Garden of Eden’ within Deer Cave, three days after he and the Dutch man, Peter Hans Hovenkemp, were swept away by the flash flood in one of the caves inside the national park.
Khirudin was speaking at the handing over of the appointment letters to the tourist guides today at Mulu National Park.
“We want to have rescuers to respond to an emergency in a timely manner,” he said.
Also present were the state Bomba assistant director (operations) Tiong Ling Hii and Zone 6 chief Supt Law Poh Kiong.
