Incident report

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called by East Midlands Ambulance Service at 8.20 p.m. on Monday evening 21st August to assist an ambulance crew dealing with an injured lady on a public footpath just 75 metres off Brown Edge Road in Buxton.
A local 79 year old lady and her husband had been out for their regular constitutional walk when a simple slip resulted in a very painful ankle injury.   Whilst the ambulance crew were able to get to the casualty and start treatment, the stretcher carry back to the ambulance was going to be up hill and difficult in the slippy conditions. Hence the call to mountain rescue.
The call was well timed as a number of members were already at the team’s Dove Holes base carrying out routine equipment maintenance.   Members and equipment were quickly on the scene just two miles down from the base and, when the ambulance crew had completed their treatment, the lady was placed in a warm casualty bag and on to a rescue stretcher for the short carry back to the waiting ambulance.  The lady was then taken to a Stockport hospital for further treatment.
Photo credit: BMRT.