A joint call-out for Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams following the report of an incident near to the top of Golden Clough on Kinder Scout.
A member of a group from Peterborough had fallen whilst walking causing an injury to her ankle. After treatment by team members the casualty was placed on a mountain rescue stretcher and carried down to the village. From Edale she was taken to hospital by relatives.
On Saturday evening the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation received a request for assistance following flash flooding in Stockport. The call out was to a multi agency incident where teams were asked to work alongside the fire and ambulance services in the Offerton area.
Qualified water rescuers from six Peak District teams, including Buxton, responded working for several hours checking on residents welfare and delivering sandbags as required.
Photo credit: BMRT, – A number of Peak District team vehicles on route to the incident.
A second call to the Monsal Trail relating to a sheep stranded high on a limestone cliff face. This time the team was armed with better information and the bleating animal was quickly located.
It was well and truly stuck on a small ledge about eighty feet above Water-cum-Jolly and the River Wye. A rope system was soon set up and an intrepid rescuer lowered down to his woolly casualty. Sheep aren’t known for their common sense and we knew that with one …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to join a massive search for missing schoolgirl, Kizzy Whitehurst, from Tarporley, Cheshire.
BMRT team members joined other volunteers from five Lowland Search and Rescue Teams, five mountain rescue teams and a number of trained search and rescue dogs in the hunt which had been ongoing since Monday night.
Cheshire Constabulary’s web-site stated, “Officers are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of 14-year-old Kizzy Whitehurst. Kizzy, who lives near Oulton Park, was last seen at home at around 10pm on Monday, June 6.
Kizzy is described as …