Search Dog Call Outs

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Dronfield

Buxton Search Dogs called out to Dronfield, to assist Edale MRT & Derby MRT search for a missing person.

The search was for a 79 year old male who had been reported missing since the previous morning. The person was not located within the areas searched.

Police are continuing with their enquiries.

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Bromley Hayes, Staffs.

A Buxton Search Dog team was called out to Kings Bromley, near Lichfield, to assist Derby MRT & Staffordshire SAR search for a mssing person.

The search was for a 20 year old male who had been reported missing since the weekend. The person was not located within the area searched.

Police are continuing with their enquiries.

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Bleaklow

Two Buxton search dog teams were called to assist Glossop MRT with a missing walking party on Bleaklow.

They were stood down whilst en-route to the incident, when the missing party was located safe and well.

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Bleaklow

Multiple Peak District Mountain Rescue Teams were called out to a night search for a benighted walker on the Bleaklow plateau.

Three Mountain Rescue teams (Edale, Glossop and Woodhead), with 7 Search Dog units, including one from Buxton, were deployed in the search which was conducted in driving rain, strong wind and hill fog. All water courses were in full spate.

The walker, from the Manchester area, was eventually located just before midnight by a foot section from Glossop MRT at the top of the West End Valley. He was walked off the hill un-injured, albeit slightly hypothermic. Read a …

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Weston on Trent

Two Buxton MRT search dogs & their handlers, along with three other search dogs from Mountain Rescue teams in the Peak District, were called to assist Derby MRT with a search for a missing person, a 74 year old male.

The search was conducted from late morning through to the darkness of early evening. All areas, which consisted of woodland and open agricultural land, were searched without locating the missing person. He was eventually found safe and well outside of the search areas.

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Kinder Scout

Seach dog, Zak, with handler, called to reinforce a search for a walker lost in hill fog.

The search was initiated by Kinder MRT who called for reinforcement from Buxton MRT in order to expand the search area. See post for team call-out for details.

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