Goyt Valley, Fernilee Dam.
- Call out for year: 49
- Date: 16/08/13
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Grid ref: SK 014 777
- Type of incident: Non mountain (Police) Search vulnerable person(1)
- Team members involved: 26
- Time taken: 5
- Total man hours: 130
Incident report
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called with Kinder MRT and Derby MRT to search the wooded and popular, Goyt Valley. Derbyshire Police requested the assistance of the rescue teams onFriday afternoon to find a 23 year old female from Buxton last seen on Wednesday. The police had great concerns for the girl’s safety and had reason to believe that she had visited the Fernilee reservoir end of the Goyt Valley.
Sixty members of the three rescue teams aided by three M R Search and Rescue dogs combed the area from late afternoon but were forced to stand-down at darkness.
The search will resume on Saturday morning.
More details of the missing person are available on www.derbyshire.police.uk (article date 16th August).
Derbyshire Police are asking for anyone with information to contact on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111
Photo credits: Team member.
Search Managers planning strategy in Buxton team’s mobile control-room.