Thousands donated to mountain rescue team after search
A mountain rescue team has received more than £7,000 since the conclusion of the search for a missing 23-year-old woman.Jenny Hall, from Tow Law, County Durham was last seen leaving her home on 18 February with her body found on Sunday after five days of searching areas around Eggleston and Hamsterley.Since Sunday, Teesdale and Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue Team (TWSMRT) has been inundated with donations from the public.Jane Ascroft, deputy team leader for TWSMRT, said the team was "incredibly touched".
The search for Ms Hall focused on the running trails she often used and her body was found in a very remote area in Teesdale just after 09:30 GMT on Sunday.Durham Police said it was not treating her death as suspicious and a file was being prepared for the coroner.TWSMRT ended up bringing in 15 other mountain rescue teams from across the country to support the search alongside the force.
Ms Ascroft said there had been a "huge emotional impact" on the team which volunteers were "all trying to catch up with now"."We are always relived to be able to provide closure for the families on these kind of jobs," she added.The deputy team leader, who also works as an accountant, said some team members took three days off of work to focus on the search.
She said the donations had been "absolutely incredible", with it costing about £50,000 a year to run the team.The donations are set to pay for a new stretcher and free up team members from fundraising to focus on helping people."We have been incredibly touched by both the support we had last week, the trust people placed in us and also the donations we have had in the last 48 hours," she said.
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