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Wildboarclough 

Tasked by North West Ambulance Service to assist with an incident in Wildbourclough.  An ambulance had tried to attend, but got stuck in a snow drift.  As team members walked in from the Rose and Crown, farmers started to move the snow drifts from both ends.

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service also attended.

HART attended with their ‘Polaris’ all terrain vehicle.

Team members escorted two paramedics to the house where a farmers wife was lying with an ankle injury, and reported vascular compromise.  She had fallen in the fields, …

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Youlgreave 

While team members were waiting for the arrival of the GP in incident 023 they were approached by a gentleman whose elderly wife had fallen out of bed in the early hours of the morning.  She was lying on the floor and in pain, and was unable to move.  He had rung 111 and their GP practice and was still waiting for a call back.  He asked if we could do anything for her.

A team member entered the property and found the 92 year old lady in a significant amount of pain.  The GP …

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Youlgreave 

The team received an urgent call to help a GP get to work. They were snowed in in their remote property and needed to get to Stewart Medical Practice in Buxton.

This was the last incident to round off the 10th of March 2023. Our first call out was 01:30 this morning, and we were stood down at 17:30.

We have been working with multiple services to get everyone where they needed to be or back from where they have been safely.

Our dedicated team members, …

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The Winking Man

Called out by Staffordshire Police, to a motorist who was stranded in his vehicle on the A53, his heater had stopped working and he was is 4-5 ft snow drifts and unable to walk anywhere.

Joint response originally Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, who struggled with access issues with the deep snow, Peak 4X4 were also unable to attend.

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue offered to use their Unimog (There is a photo if you dont know what a unimog is… I didn’t either!) all terrain vehicle from Leek, and set off at 07:38, …

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Parsley Hey

Straight from call out 019, tasked by Derbyshire Police to three individuals stuck in snow drifts in a vehicle near Parsley Hey. It was believed they were Italian.

Team members joined up with a police officer in their own vehicle and made their way along the A515 – there were deep drifts of snow which they managed to get through but the road was found to be blocked by stranded vehicles just after Pomeroy.

There were three cars and a transit van stuck with a total of SIX drivers, all of …

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