Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to Combs Moss following the report of a man suffering chest pain.  The report also triggered a response from an E.M.A.S. Paramedic First Responder and an E.M.A.S. Paramedic Response car and the North West Air-ambulance.

A 69 year old man had been walking with friends on a round of the moor when he stumbled and tumbled about three metres into a gully.   Team members climbed steeply from Pye Greave Farm up to the casualty site arriving at the same time as the air-ambulance.  The …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and Edale M.R.Ts called to rendezvous at Town Head Bridge, Hope.

A 16 year old mountain biker was descending the Roman Road towards Hope when she took a tumble and sustained upper body injuries.  The rescue teams used 4 x 4 vehicles to access the incident site and were able to assist E.M.A.S. paramedics in treating the casualty.   The young lady was then carried by stretcher for some considerable distance back to Town Head Bridge where an ambulance was waiting.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, together with Edale M.R.T. called to assist an elderly lady who was unable to continue her walk to Hollins Cross owing to a medical incident.

Following treatment the lady was placed on a stretcher and carried down the hill towards Castleton where an ambulance was waiting to convey her to hospital.

Chatsworth Park hosts Chatsworth Country Fair, an annual, three day event attracting tens of thousands of people on each day.  Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, as a fundraising event, has been helping the fair organisers for over thirty years and the team has members on sight throughout the weekend.  Whilst the team’s principal task is to sell programs it is often called upon help with the myriad of problems which are bound to arise with so many people attending the show.  Minor injuries and lost children are regular occurrences but occasionally an event develops into something a little more serious.

On Friday, the first day of the 2016 event, …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and Edale M.R.T. called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service with an
incident in the Edale Valley.
A female walker had been descending the footpath near to Greenlands Farm on the south side of the Edale Valley, when she slipped on the muddy surface sustaining a suspected fractured ankle.  She was treated on site by the ambulance crew but however the team members were required to carry the …