Todbrook Reservoir, Whaley Bridge

  • Call out for year: 69
  • Date: 1/08/19
  • Time: 1:55 pm
  • Grid ref: SK 00825 80815
  • Type of incident: Non mountain (Police) Other()
  • Team members involved: 30
  • Time taken: 10 hours 4 minsutes
  • Total man hours: 302 hours

Incident report

Team members were called along with other mountain rescue teams in the Peak District to assist the emergency services following heavy rainfall and a partial collapse of the dam wall at Todbrook Reservoir.

In a quickly developing incident, team members maintained a presence in Whaley Bridge for a number of days assisting the Police and Fire and Rescue Services with a number of deployments associated with the evacuation of the village and the stability of the dam wall.

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