A gentleman out for a walk from Peak Dale to Castleton took a slip and sustained a lower leg injury. Buxton and Edale Mountain Rescue Team responded and helped transport the gentleman to an East Midlands Ambulance Service with the aid of a back rope and stretcher.
The team was called to do a welfare check on an elderly farmer in the Brandside Area of Buxton.
Here’s the report from Volunteer team member Carina.
‘We were asked by our TL to check on a remote farm in the Brandside area. We got less than half a mile up the Leek Road when the deep snow drifts were too much even for the Team Land Rover. We tried the lower roads instead and were able to get within half a mile of the farm, having to do the remainder on foot. With gale force winds and thigh deep snow …
The team was called to assist a walker who had slipped on a muddy path near Thornbridge Hall and suffered a lower leg injury. The team assisted East Midlands Ambulance Service and Edale Mountain Rescue Team to carry the casualty to an awaiting land ambulance for the transfer to hospital.
Fifteen members of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team attended another snow related incident at 08:54 on Thursday 8th March. The volunteer team members were called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service and Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service with a motorist who had sustained a leg injury in a road traffic collision. The incident occurred in icy conditions on the steep Sparrowpit to Chapel-en-le-Frith road near the village of Bagshaw.
The injured man was extricated by the fire service and strapped into an insulated vacuum mattress and casualty bag on a mountain rescue stretcher. Team members, wearing spikes on their boots, carried the …
The team were tasked to conduct a welfare check on a local resident due to concerns of family and friends not been able to contact her. The team turned out multiple vehicles and personnel due to the prevailing conditions and location of the farm. After getting as as possible by vehicle a small foot party accessed the farm and made contact with the lady, establishing she was perfectly fine, just having issues with mobile phone signal! The team passed on the message to her concerned relatives and friends and returned to base.
