Incident report

Buxton & Edale joint snatch squad called out to assist a mountain biker on Jacobs Ladder.  Regrettably, most of Buxton Team were on a training exercise in Staffordshire but six other members were still able to assist Edale Team who had responded to a man suffering severe chest pains.

Rescue medics treated the casualty, a man from Leicester, for a suspected heart attack before he was airlifted to hospital by Yorkshire Air-ambulance.