The team was called to assist with the extraction of a paraglider on Cats Tor, above Goyt Valley.
A small number of team members were at Dove base when a call came in, so a very quick response was underway.
Tricky driving conditions stalled the land ambulance on the way up to Pym Chair. Mobile 1 took the paramedic and proceeded to Pym Chair to set up the RV point.
As team members started to arrive, we had notification that helimed was taking the patient and BMRT was …
Call from Derbyshire Police via Duty Controller to assist with a person stuck in a vehicle in the snow on Goyts Lane.
In the light of further information it was confirmed that the driver had been able to self extract and the team were stood down.
The second call was received at 00:32. Snow was lying to a good depth and had been drifting across the narrow lanes making access difficult. Team members attended a remote cottage in the same area as the previous call, using the Hilux (Mobile 1) and Mobile 4 as well as on foot, following some of the routes as per the previous call.
The occupant was found on the floor of his home had been there for several hours and was unable to get up. After a thorough examination, he was found to be cold but …
The team were called on two ocassions to the same area. Derbyshire Constabulary received a request from Staffordshire Police, for Buxton Mountain Rescue to carry out several welfare checks on residents who had been cut off by drifting snow and had experienced power cuts.
The first checks were carried out by a small number of personnel in one of the team’s 4x4s, the Defender (Mobile 4). The main area of concern was around the Flash & Knotbury area. Snow ploughs had cleared some of the side roads, but they were not 100% …
Another wintery call out for the team.
A walker out experiencing the wild weather of the Peak District National Park, took a slip sustaining a lower leg injury. We received the call out shortly after this year’s Casualty Care exam had finished at our base at Buxton Fire Station.
Similar to Saturday’s call out, team members were required to meet at the fire station to enable safe transportation via the team’s 4x4s to the casualty site, which was near Booths Farm, High Edge.
On arrival, casualty care …
