While out walking with a friend a local slipped and fell awkwardly sustaining an injury to the upper leg. The call for assistance from Buxton Mountain Rescue Team came via our colleagues at North West Ambulance Service and Cheshire Search and Rescue and team members and vehicles soon began to arrive at Tegg’s Nose Country Park.

Members of the public gave information about the location of the casualty and a team 4×4 vehicle was able to drive close to the scene carrying both equipment and personnel. It was clear the casualty …

After weeks of freezing temperatures and biting easterly winds, milder weather returned to Buxton and stripped the slopes of snow and ice. While out enjoying these warmer conditions, a local resident slipped on a steep patch of mud at the top of Grin Low sustaining a very painful lower leg injury.

A 999 call was made to East Midlands Ambulance Service and paramedics were soon on scene to begin the initial treatment. Due to the location, Buxton Mountain Rescue Team were called to assist with the evacuation off the hill. The first team …

As part of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation – PDMRO water response, Buxton MRT’s Swift Water Rescue section (SRT) members together with SRTs from Kinder Mountain Rescue Team and Derby Mountain Rescue Team are back home after an all-night deployment to Bakewell fire station on standby for flood rescue.

Fortunately, no evacuation of homes was necessary. The only incident was a car stuck in flood water with the driver sitting on the roof.

As …

A Saturday “tea time” callout came in for assistance with an incident in Buxton.

The commanding view from Solomon’s Temple attracts many local residents, but several days of freeze-thaw and the trampling of many hundreds of walkers had made the paths very icy in parts.

Our colleagues from East Midlands Ambulance Service were treating the casualty, who had slipped walking down to the car park sustaining a painful shoulder injury, but due to the location of the fall our assistance was required to organise the evacuation. …

The Team Leader picked up messages that initially suggested a missing vulnerable person was in our operational area.

The Team was then to quickly stand down as further information was made available.