Postal address: GPO Box 1573, Brisbane 4001
As bushwalking clubs grew in the 1950's, they organised preventative training for their members in the form of 'Safety and Training' and also started 'Search and Rescue' training to cope with situations which might arise. The largest proportion of experience gained in search and rescue had been, and still is, on non-club related incidents as a community service.
As the number of clubs grew, a Federation of Bushwalking clubs was formed and consequently search and rescue matters became consolidated under the Federation to pool resources. Federation Mountain Rescue evolved out of the expertise from individual clubs to be the mountain rescue service for member clubs of the Queensland Federation of Bushwalking Clubs.
Subsequently, due to growth, FMR has become an autonomous member of the Federation rather than a sub-section of it.
FMR has been involved in many callouts since it was formed. The number of callouts per year varies considerably and have ranged as far north as Fraser Island for a body recovery over a sea cliff, south to Lennox Head in New South Wales to give abseiling training to helicopter sea rescue crews and west to Toowoomba for land searches.
FMR's association with QES became revitalised after the 1974 flood and with the increasing use of rescue helicopters and joint operations on callouts.
FMR is well known to some members of the QES, various Rescue Helicopter services, Local Shires, News services and the Police Department. FMR may not be well known to the general public as FMR has avoided excessive publicity in the past.
Recently, FMR updated its Objects to reflect the nature of the work it actually has done over several decades and took special note of its research into bushwalking related matters.
Most recently, FMR has formally become a bushwalking club to better emphasize its activities and re-vamped its program to make this clearer than previously appeared.