Incident report

A joint call-out for Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams following the report of a 50 year old lady from Totley, Sheffield, having slipped and injured her ankle.

The Derbyshire, Leicester & Rutland Air-ambulance was already in attendance but the steep sided valleys of Cales Dale and Lathkill Dale meant that the aircraft could not land close enough to the casualty to be effective.

The two teams rendezvoused at One Ash Grange Farm and members then descended in to Cales Dale with the rescue equipment.  The lady had been crossing a stile at a footbridge when a simple slip resulted in a potential fractured ankle.  Following medical assessment and treatment by the aircraft crew, the casualty was placed on a stretcher for the steep climb out.

An East Midlands Ambulance attended to take the lady by road to a local hospital and thus to free up the aircraft for any other serious incident which may occur.