Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and Edale M.R.R called to an incident at Hollins Cross above Castleton.
A 50 year old lady had taken a tumble on the path causing an injury to her lower leg. Team members assessed and splinted the injury before carrying the lady on a stretcher down to a waiting ambulance.
Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Team members called to assist a gentleman who had fallen from a stile near to Losehill Hall in the Hope Valley. The incident was not too remote and local team members were rapidly on scene to assess the gentlemen.
The Derbyshire Rutland and Leicestershire Air ambulance also attended but was not used transport the casualty. Instead, the gentleman was carried to a waiting East Midlands Ambulance Service ambulance for assessment.
The brevity of the incident meant that many rescue members were stood down before arrival.
A joint call for both Buxton and Edale mountain rescue teams following the reported collapse of a twenty-three year old female from Birmingham. The lady had been walking with her partner when the incident occurred near to a spot known locally as Bungalow Corner in Grindsbrook.
The Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air-ambulance was first on scene and the crew had become very concerned for the young woman who was suffering severe asthma attack .
Team members responded urgently and the casualty was carried by stretcher from the scene to the aircraft landing site as quickly as possible. Emergency treatment was ongoing as the helicopter took …
Not a team call-out in the traditional sense.
A Buxton team member became aware through personal connections that a man, previously reported missing from another area, may be on Higger Tor, near Hathersage.
The police were informed and a Buxton Deputy Team Leader contacted Edale Mountain Rescue Team, within whose area Higger Tor is situated, so preparations for a search could be started. In the meantime the Buxton member made his own way to Higger Tor and safely located the man. After being escorted from the hillside the man was assessed by an Edale MRT doctor before he was taken to hospital by family members.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called together with Cheshire Search and Rescue Team to search for a 49 year old male from Macclesfield.
The team rendezvoused with other services in Macclesfield Forest to look for the man who had been reported missing the day before and for whom police now had serious concerns. With little information to work on team members covered many of the myriad of footpaths through the forest but as darkness fell there was still no sign. Teams were closing down for the night and preparing …
A joint call-out for Buxton and Edale rescue teams following the report of a 47 year old female from Chapel en le Frith having sustained a suspected ankle fracture whilst walking under Mam Tor near Castleton.
After initial treatment by East Midlands ambulance crew the lady was lifted onto a rescue stretcher for the short carry down to the old Mam Tor road. There the ambulance was waiting to take her to a Stockport hospital for further examination.
Phot credit: BMRT – casualty being sledged down the …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called along with Edale M.R.T. following the report of three casualties in the upper parts of Grindbrook. Initial information was sketchy but, with the thoughts of three stretcher evacuations from one of the most difficult areas of Kinder, a Coastguard S-92 helicopter was also alerted.
A total of thirty-five rescuers responded to the call and three independent sets of rescue equipment were dispatched up Grindsbrook from Edale. At the same …
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to support Cheshire Search & Rescue following the report of a three year old child missing in the Style area of Wilmslow. Whilst seventeen members responded few got further than their front door as the child was found safe and well minutes after the initial call.
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to support Edale M.R.T. following a call from East Midlands Ambulance Service.
A 999 call had reported an accident at Slippery Stones in the Upper Derwent Valley involving a twelve year old girl. The girl had been jumping into rock pools when a slip resulted in a black injury. She was treated on site by rescuers and paramedics before being carried by stretcher to where Helimed 54 had been able to land. She was then airlifted to Sheffield Childrens’ Hospital for further assessment.
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A joint call-out for Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams following the report of a 50 year old lady from Totley, Sheffield, having slipped and injured her ankle.
The Derbyshire, Leicester & Rutland Air-ambulance was already in attendance but the steep sided valleys of Cales Dale and Lathkill Dale meant that the aircraft could not land close enough to the casualty to be effective.
The two teams rendezvoused at One Ash Grange Farm and members then descended in to Cales Dale with the rescue equipment. The lady had been crossing a stile at a footbridge when a simple slip resulted in a potential fractured ankle. Following …