Buxton and Edale Joint Team Snatch Squad call-out to assist a 25 year old male walker on the footpath from Hope to Lose Hill summit. 

Buxton team members had just returned from a training exercise and were at base when the call was received which created a rapid response.

The man had suffered a suspected fracture of the right ankle.  He was treated on site by rescue first-aiders before being carried by stretcher to a waiting ambulance which took him to a Stockport hospital.

Photo:  Casualty about to be transfered from rescue stretcher to ambulance bed.

Buxton & Edale joint snatch squad called out to assist a mountain biker on Jacobs Ladder.  Regrettably, most of Buxton Team were on a training exercise in Staffordshire but six other members were still able to assist Edale Team who had responded to a man suffering severe chest pains.

Rescue medics treated the casualty, a man from Leicester, for a suspected heart attack before he was airlifted to hospital by Yorkshire Air-ambulance.

Buxton and several other Peak District rescue teams plus search dogs were put on stand-by following the overdue report of a group of youths on a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme expedition.

It was a clear, moonlit night but temperatures were forecast to fall below freezing by midnight.  Fortunately, the group turned up safely before the final decision to start a full search was taken.

Buxton Team called to assist North West Ambulance with a casualty in the Dane Valley near Gradbach.   The casualty was a 35 year old male from Bristol who had slipped and sustained an injury to the right foot whilst walking in a remote area.  After calling for assistance he was then able to hobble towards a position more easily accessible for an ambulance crew.

An ambulance and an Ambulance First Responder were first on scene and rendered early treatment before assisting him to a 4 x 4 vehicle for onward transport to a Macclesfield hospital.    

The rescue team, which had been called as a back up …

Buxton and Edale Teams’ snatch squad responded to a male mountain biker from Northampton who was taking part in a charity bike ride.  The bike slipped on the wet limestone causing a suspected fractured ankle for the rider. 

First Aid was initially rendered by rescue team members before the casualty was taken by air-ambulance to a Chesterfield hospital.

In contention for the shortest call-out of the year (BMRT call-out in May) is today’s joint snatch call with Edale MRT.

A climber had fallen resulting in a suspected fractured lower leg.

The teams were stood-down when other climbers and walkers managed to help the casualty to the car park. Good effort, folks.

Buxton and Edale joint call-out to Burbage Edge (South) after a climber fell approx 10 feet sustaining an injury to their leg.

The person was treated on site by an M.R. doctor, and then carried by stretcher some 700m over rocky terrain to a waiting air- ambulance for onward transportation to hospital.

Buxton Team were called to search the River Dane from Danebridge to Gradbach for a canoeist who had been swept away in the spate. Because of the length and nature of the area Search & Rescue Dogs were requested as well as Water Search sections from Edale and Kinder MRT’s.

Sadly, the canoeist was located approx ¼ mile below where she was last seen and, despite the efforts of the emergency service, was pronounced dead.

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

Several Team members attending the incident at Jacob’s Ladder were diverted to a male walker who had fallen in the upper forks of Grindsbrook and sustained head and leg injuries. The casualty was treated at the scene and then transported by RAF Seaking directly to hospital in Stockport.

Joint Buxton and Edale Teams’ snatch squad called to Jacob’s Ladder near Upper Booth. A female walker had fallen whilst descending the path and was in the river with head and back injuries as well as hypothermia.
Treated on-site the casualty was carried on a  mountain rescue stretcher to a waiting road ambulance.
An RAF Seaking helicopter, initially tasked to this job, was diverted when the Team was made aware of a second, unrelated incident at the top of Grindsbrook Clough.