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Search in Macclesfield

A very busy evening for the team tonight with two call outs.

The first call out was to assist Cheshire Police and our colleagues, Cheshire Search and Rescue who had been asked to search for a missing person in Macclesfield.

With the call coming in late afternoon, and with the prospect of not much daylight time left, Buxton MRT was requested to provide additional members to carry out the search.

A number of search sections had been deployed and were in the process of searching their …

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Monsal Trail, Cressbrook

The Team were called to help a a crag fast male walker (and his dog) from above the River Wye at Cressbrook. The walker had been walking off the trail and had become stuck above a rocky outcrop. with no easy escape route either up, or down he had called mountain rescue for assistance and recovery.

The casualty was located and assisted from the steep ground using a rope system, and escorted back to their car, in Cressbrook. …

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Long Hill, north west of Buxton

A very busy day for the team today!

Some team members were fundraising on Sunday at our regular location in Castleton. A mid afternoon call out required them to leave their fundraising duties for a short time to attend a call out just to the north west of Buxton.

Several members of the drone team were also putting in additional voluntary time, in Wincle, south east of Macclesfield, making the most of the good weather to practice their drone skills. They too had to pack up their equipment quickly to …

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Kinder Scout, Edale

The team was called along with Edale MRT and Kinder MRT to assist a gentleman who was out walking with a group of friends when he felt ill and was unable to continue.   The gentleman was dizzy and disorientated when trying to stand or walk, and clearly could not continue A couple of members of his party stayed with him while the rest of the group walked off.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team members were transported to the bottom of Jacobs Ladder to make their way to the casualty location at Pym chair …

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Grindslow Knoll, Kinder Scout

The team was called out along with our colleagues at Edale Mountain Rescue Team as part of the mid-week joint callout procedure.

The teams were requested by Derbyshire Constabulary to attend a person who had been walking on Grindslow Knoll. The lady had slipped and aggravated a pre-existing injury to her ankle. The lady was unable to continue her walk off the hill.

On arrival at the casualty site, the teams quickly assessed the casualty and administered pain relief. The casualty was then transferred to a mountain rescue stretcher for the journey down …

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