Fifteen members of the Joint Edale and Buxton Team Snatch Squad responded when called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service already on scene at an incident just a 100 metres from Speedwell Cavern.

A lady, from Macclesfield supervising  a school party, had slipped in the damp conditions and sustained a suspected fracture to the ankle.  First aid treatment was by E.M.A.S. staff before the casualty was placed on a rescue stretcher for the short but steep decent to the ambulance.   She was then taken to a Macclesfield hospital for further treatment.

A call at 17.00 hours from East Midlands Ambulance Service requesting assistance with a injured walker in the Goyt Valley caused some initial resource problems.  The incident was squarely in Buxton team’s operational area but twenty members were already committed to a search on Kinder Scout.  A second radio-pager call-out raised eight members who had been unable to attend the search but were now available.   A team vehicle with the necessary rescue equipment was diverted from the Kinder search and Kinder MRT was also able to call on five extra members to assist.  Knowing that the Goyt incident was …

Search Dog Megan with handler Dave Mason were on their way to support three teams taking part in a search for a man on Kinder Scout.  When the Kinder Scout casualty was located by another Peak District search dog, Dave and Megan were diverted to assist with another simultaneous  rescue in the Goyt Valley.   See team calls No: 60 & 61 on 25th September.

Kinder and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams called out when a man reported himself and partner lost on Kinder plateau.  The mid-afternoon call started when the man and woman from Lincolnshire phoned the police stating they had gone on to Kinder via Jacobs Ladder but had become disorientated in the thick low cloud and drizzle.   They were not in any immediate danger so initially just the two rescue teams were called together with two search dogs.

Whilst a direct mobile phone had been lost the police had been able to establish a rough area from which the call had been made …

The Full Kinder Search Plan was activated to locate a 22 year old man reported to be lost on the Kinder plateau.  The man was known to be a fit and experienced walker who had already had a long day starting his walk in the Derwent Valley.  His last phone contact with relatives placed him in the darkness somewhere on Kinder Scout and in thick low cloud and driving rain.

The call came just ten minutes after team members had stood down from the previous four hour search of the plateau.  However, twenty-six Buxton members responded to the call returning to …