Scarborough has a team of 12 members making up a back up response team (BURT) with full cliff rescue facilities. It is home to both the local team and the sector office.

The sector office is situated on Sandside in a building known as the Tollhouse.

The rescue team work from a separate building located in the old town at Paradise. This is where the vehicle and equipment is kept and where the team meet for call outs to incidents and for training.

 Scarborough Sector Office

All incidents are co-ordinated by Humber Coastguard. Assets we can call on are Burniston and Filey Coastguard teams who provide our flank stations with Burniston a team of 5 and Filey  a team of 11, Scarborough all-weather (ALB) and inshore lifeboats (ILB), a sea king helicopter from RAF Leconfield (known as Rescue 128) and a Mountain Rescue team. Additionally during the summer season the North and South bays are patrolled by the council lifeguards

The Scarborough patch covers from Scalby Mills to Redcliffe which is just to the south of Cayton Bay and the team also man the landing site at Scarborough Hospital when Rescue 128 lands.