Booth Farm, High Edge.
- Call out for year: 84
- Date: 28/11/21
- Time: 1:01 pm
- Grid ref: SK 06185 67094
- Type of incident: Walker Injured(1)
- Team members involved: 22
- Time taken: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Total man hours: 35 hours
Incident report
Another wintery call out for the team.
A walker out experiencing the wild weather of the Peak District National Park, took a slip sustaining a lower leg injury. We received the call out shortly after this year’s Casualty Care exam had finished at our base at Buxton Fire Station.
Similar to Saturday’s call out, team members were required to meet at the fire station to enable safe transportation via the team’s 4x4s to the casualty site, which was near Booths Farm, High Edge.
On arrival, casualty care was conducted by Kieran and Clare who had both passed their mountain rescue casualty care (first aid) exam earlier in the day. The casualty was packaged and loaded onto the stretcher then carried the short distance to Mobile 4, and then driven through the drifted snow covered lanes that had iced up overnight to an awaiting East Midlands Ambulance at the fire station in Buxton.
Team members also returned to the fire station and due to the number of personal at the scene, a kind member of the public, who was holidaying in a nearby cottage transported some members in his 4×4.
We’d like to thank everybody involved in this call out and all call outs over the weekend, especially the member of the public for his lift back to the fire station.
