The shortest call-out of the year!  North West Ambulance Service called for assistance with an injured female casualty in Dane Bower Quarries at 14.02 pm.  At 14.09 pm the ambulance service again contacted to state that an air-ambulance was on scene and that mountain rescue was not required.  Team members were stood down before they could tie their boot laces.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team responded to an urgent call from Derbyshire Police to assist an air-ambulance crew with a casualty on the hillside above Litton Mill.  Regrettably, despite the all the efforts of the ambulance paramedics, the middle aged man from Sheffield died at the scene.

Team members later carried the deceased to the Monsal Trail where police officers were able to carry out further investigations.

Buxton MRT members express their deepest sympathy to all friends and relatives of the deceased.

A joint Edale & Buxton snatch squad call to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service with a 76 year old female who had slipped whilst walking in the popular limestone area above the River Wye.

On hoilday from Cambridge with her family, the lady suffered a suspected fracture to ankle in a slip on the steep path to Sheldon.  Early treatment was carried out by ambulance staff whilst the mountain rescue teams were being mobilised.  Our members then carried the casualty back to White Lodge car park for transport by ambulance to a Derbyshire hospital.

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Search Dog Megan with handler Dave Mason and another SARDA Unit were called to serach for an 86 year old male who had wandered away from his care home in Etwall.   The man, suffering from dementia, was located by a member of Derby MRT just 500 metre from the point he was last seen.  He had collapsed into a ditch and whilst uninjured  he was suffering from hypothermia.  Dave and Megan were close by and were able to assist with immediate first aid and evacuation of the casualty to an ambulance.

Buxton’s Search Dog Megan was credited with saving a life when she, with handler Dave Mason, was called to Linacre Woods west of Chesterfield.  Edale MRT and two other search dogs had been called to assist Derbyshire Police with a search of woodland for a 24 year old vulnerable male.  It was thought that the man may have attempted to harm himself and mountain rescue responded appropriately. 

Megan was about half way in to her search pattern to the north of the reservoirs when she disappeared for a few minutes before returning to give a strong indication to her handler that she …