Over the period of Friday the 5th of October to Sunday the 7th October 2012, team search dogs, Megan and Zak, along with their handlers, assisted local mountain rescue teams with the search for missing 5 year old, April Jones, in South Wales.

The dog units worked tirelessly to search demanding areas of forestry and mountain side.

Unfortunately April was not located. Both dog handlers were touched by the welcoming community who not only supplied endless amounts of food to the MRT members, but also provided accommodation. Their thoughts remain with Aprils parents.

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Late on Saturday night Buxton Team was called to assist the police in a search for a vulnerable 33 year old male from the Derby area.

The team was called to Corbar Road, Buxton, following the discovery of his car nearby. Search areas were identified, which included Corbar Woods, Corbar Cross, and Coldsprings Plantation.

Twenty two team members with two search and rescue dogs, together with police officers were deployed into these areas. The missing man later made contact with his family saying he was in Buxton Town Centre. He was collected by police.

The team was stood down.

Two search dog units called out late on Saturday night, along with Buxton Mountain Rescue team, to assist the police in searching for a missing man.

For further details, please see team call-out on same date.

Search Dog Zak, and his handler, were called to assist Derby Mountain Rescue team for a missing person.

The woman, a 86 year old, had been missing from her home for two days at this point. She was eventually found by a hedgerow in a field, outside of the search dog’s area, and was taken to Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham for attention.

Buxton Mountain Rescue was called to Rushop Edge on Sunday afternoon following a call about a bog-fast person in a group doing a Duke of Edinburgh award.

The group of five were on the final leg of their expedition from Brown Knoll and were heading for Edale, when one of them, a 17 year old female from Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, walked into the peat bog. The group tried, together with supervisors, to release her, without success.

Contact was established with the group and it became clear that the girl had been in the bog hours. She was cold, wet, but in …