The team, along with Edale Mountain Rescue Team, was called out on Wednesday afternoon to a joint incident on Mam Tor.

The female casualty had been walking on Mam Tor with her husband when she fell and sustained an ankle injury. The casualty was assessed and given pain relief before her leg was splinted and she was placed on a mountain rescue stretcher.

The stretcher was initially sledged down the grassy slope, and then carried to the road head where the casualty was handed over to East Midlands Ambulance Service for onward transport to hospital.

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Search dog handler Dave and dog Griff were called to assist Derbyshire Constabulary with the search for a missing male in the Lea Bridge Area. Dave and Griff were joined by Ian Bunting and Search Dog Bolt from Edale MRT. The dogs and handlers, along with colleagues from Derby MRT were stood down around 2am the following morning  as the Police received further information that the missing person might not be in the search area.

The missing person was later found safe and well.

Picture of Griff, (and Meg in the background)

In what was our quickest, stand by/stand down callout so far this year, the team was called to a joint snatch incident with Edale Mountain Rescue Team to assist a walker who had experienced a medical event. The team were stood down very quickly due to information that the group had been able to get to a position by themselves to be met by a paramedic from East Midlands Ambulance Service, who was able to resolve the issue.

Another afternoon call out when team members were alerted to an incident at around the same time as they had been called out to help on the previous day.

The team was asked to attend an incident at Millers Dale, and members, having been alerted by the usual text messages, were soon on route to the RV point.

Before arriving at Millers Dale the team was informed that the incident had been resolved, and was consequently stood down, fairly quickly.

The team was called out late afternoon to an incident in Grin Low Woods, Buxton.

Thirteen team members responded to the callout and on arrival  they found a female casualty had reportedly been involved in an incident and had received a painful injury, to her hip/pelvic area. Following a medical assessment of the casualty,  she was  given entonox, before an East Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic arrived. The casualty was then reassessed, and given stronger pain relief before being placed in a casualty bag and vacuum mattress, and transported on a mountain rescue stretcher, to Poole’s Cavern Car Park, where she was …

As part of the Mountain Rescue and Police response to search for a missing person near Hartington, (see call out details of 28th April), search dog Griff and handler Dave were also called into help. Griff is a fully graded search dog, one of just a few in the Peak District. We also think he’s very photogenic, so here’s a couple of photographs for you.

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At about 7.45pm, this evening, the team was asked to assist Derby Mountain Rescue Team, Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England and the Police on a joint search. The request was to search for a vulnerable missing person in the Hartington area.

As team members were arriving at the RV for a briefing, the missing person was thankfully found, allowing team members to return home, for a quiet Sunday evening.

A mid afternoon joint snatch call out for call out for both Buxton and Edale Mountain Rescue Teams to the Grindsbrook footpath, just outside of Edale.

A female casualty was quickly located. She had been walking with her family, tripped and dislocated her knee. The teams assessed the casualty, gave pain relief, and the dislocation was reduced, and her leg splinted and immobilised. She was then placed in a vacuum mat, in a casualty bag and placed on the stretcher for a carry down back to Edale.

She was taken to hospital by grateful family members for further assessment.

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The team’s assistance was requested again by Derbyshire Constabulary to assist with an incident at Ringing Roger, early afternoon on Sunday 21st April.

The team attended along with Edale Mountain Rescue Team and quickly deployed up to the casualty’s location. The casualty was a female on a Duke of Edinburgh  walk who had injured her ankle. The injury was assessed, and pain relief given, before the ankle was splinted and the casualty placed in a vacuum mattress and put onto a mountain rescue stretcher. The casualty was then carried down to Edale where she was handed over to the DoE leaders …

On what was turning out to be the hottest day of the year so far, Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, and Edale Mountain Rescue Team, were requested by Derbyshire Constabulary to assist a female walker who had injured her leg on the edge path above Grindsbrook.

Both teams deployed up the hill to the casualty’s location. On reaching the casualty, team members assessed and stabilised the injury, and made arrangements for the evacuation via stretcher back over Grindslow Knoll and down to Edale.

Due to the location, and the circumstances, a request was made to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency for a …