A joint Buxton and Edale Snatch Squad call-out to assist a 24 year old male from Tumbridge Wells, Kent, who had fallen 10 metres from a climbing route known as Edale Slabs and had sustained lower back and pelvic injuries.

The casualty was treated on site by ambulance service paramedics before being carried by stretcher to the waiting Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance for a short flight to a hospital in Sheffield.

Photo:  Air ambulance waiting to receive the casualty.

East Midlands Ambulance Service requested mountain rescue assistance following a 999 call from a group of 24 children and 4 adults doing the Three Dales Circular Walk near Hartington. One of the party, a 15 year old female from Conway, had slipped and jarred her back and was unable to continue.

Buxton and Derby Mountain Rescue Teams were called to the incident and met at Wolfscote Grange. The exact position of the party was not clear and search dog, Megan, with handler, Dave Mason, were immediatelydeployed to locate the group. Other team members were soon on scene, and the young girl was treated by …

Buxton search dog, Megan, with handler, Dave Mason, assisted in locating an injured casualty when the team was called to the aid of a large group of young walkers. Because of cell-phone communication problems, the exact position of the group was uncertain at the start of the incident but Megan soon led the rescuers to the scene.  See team call-out for fuller details.

A full team call-out for Buxton Mountain Rescue Team with support from Kinder Mountain Rescue Team plus three Peak District search dog units.

Staffordshire police asked for the assistance of mountain rescue in searching a large area of wooded land close to the canal basin of Froghall, near Leek. This was an attempt to locate any traces of a man who had been missing for 12 months.  The man, who was known to be depressed and had previously attempted suicide, went missing from his home address in March 2009. Despite many searches and enquiries by the police nothing had yet been found. The area around …

Buxton team members, Dave Mason, with search dog Megan, and Nick Smith, with search dog Zak, together with another Peak District search dog units were called to support a team search for a vulnerable person at Froghall, Staffordshire.  See team call-out under Froghall, Mar 2010 for fuller details.