Search Dog Megan with handler Dave Mason called in support of a major search for a vulnerable person.  See team call No 49.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called with Kinder MRT and Derby MRT to search the wooded and popular, Goyt Valley.    Derbyshire Police requested the assistance of the rescue teams onFriday afternoon to find a 23 year old female from Buxton last seen on Wednesday.  The police had great concerns for the girl’s safety and had reason to believe that she had visited the Fernilee reservoir end of the Goyt Valley.

 Sixty members of the three rescue teams aided by three M R Search …

Buxton Mountain Rescue team called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service following the report of a woman having slipped nearly forty feet.   The lady had been walking on a steep limestone path made very slippery with moss and recent rain when she slipped down an embankment in the wooded valley.   A tree arrested the fall which could otherwise have been more serious.  

Locating the casualty, a mature lady from Eyam, proved difficult in the valley with the steep sides hampering radio and mobile phone communications.  Initial treatment …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called alongside Kinder MRT to search Lyme Park, a large National Trust estate in Disley, Cheshire.  The teams were called by Greater Manchester Police to assist with an extensive search for a man from the Stockport area.

The police had reason to be concerned for the man’s welfare and committed a large number of resources to the search.  Nearly forty members of mountain rescue teams together with three mountain rescue search dogs spent eight hours combing the entire parkland including some densely wooded areas.

The man was not located and the mountain rescue search was suspended until police …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called at 16.00 hours by East Midlands Ambulance Service following the report a someone having fallen from the top of  a well known monument, Solomon’s Temple in Grinlow Country Park.

As team members arrived, ambulance paramedics were already on scene and treating the casualty and the Derbyshire, Leicester and Rutland Air-ambulance was just landing.  The 15 year old boy, on holiday with his family from Derby had fallen 20 feet from the top sustaining possible back injuries.  Following on …