Team members called to relieve exhausted colleagues in Kinder and Glossop teams who have been on standby to assist North West Ambulance Service. 

Both Kinder and Glossop MRTs had been on constant standby for the ambulance service since Monday night.  During that time team members have worked in shifts around the clock to provide a 4 x 4 vehicle emergency response to any location badly effected with the weather.  Both teams have answered many 999 calls for the ambulance service and dealt with many casualties but there is only so much that volunteers can do.  When the teams were asked to continue providing …

Buxton Team called by Derbyshire Fire Service to assist with the evacuation of a casualty from a tall structure in the quarry workings.  The casualty, a 45 year old man from Chesterfield, had suffered a serious medical collapse whilst working at a great height. It was first thought that an aerial rope-way rescue would be required. However, ambulance and fire service personnel were able to carry the man to ground level. He was then transferred to a helicopter. 

The call-out was cancelled as team members were arriving at the scene.

On Monday night severe weather gripped the whole of the North West with heavy snow falling across the region causing chaos on the roads.   Whilst conditions were bad locally with 15 cms of fresh snow in Buxton the Greater Manchester region had it even worse causing many roads to become impassable. 

Our neighbouring teams at Hayfield, Glossop, Woodhead and Oldham were called out during Monday night to support the North West Ambulance Service which was seriously strained by the huge number of 999 calls.   The teams deployed all their 4 x 4 vehicles and …

A report  by a concerned passerby to the Peak National Park Information Centre at Castleton resulted in a 999 call to the police about a family stranded on the roadside between Mam Tor and Barber Booth. 

The Sheffield family had come to the area for a day of sledging in the snow but in the process lost their car keys.  The family, including a 10 year old and a 7 year old, became very cold whilst they waited over 2 hours for a vehicle rescue organisation to turn out. When informed …

On Bank Holiday Monday mountain rescue was again called to assist the ambulance service on an ice plastered road.

Ten Buxton team members responded to Longridge Lane between Dove Holes and Peak Dale to where a walker had been lying for an hour before anyone found him on the remote lane. The 49 year old man had simply slipped on the treacherously icy road surface and sustained a suspected fracture to the ankle but he had no way of summoning help. 

By the time he was found hypothermia was starting to take affect.  He was treated by team members and an East Midlands Ambulance crew before being transferred …