Buxton Mountain Rescue Team Member Dave and Search dog Griff were in Cornwall and were able to provide assistance to Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team Plymouth Section in a search for a high-risk missing person.

Further information was received and the search was recommenced on Friday with DSRT Plymouth, DSRT Tavistock and 7 Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England dogs and handlers.

Unfortunately, the missing person was not found during the course of the search but was successfully located by police the next day safe and well…

As the Todbrook Reservoir dam incident developed, water trained personnel were requested to be ready and stationed locally in case of a dam breach. Other team members took up station at control and at other advised locations.

Team members were called along with other mountain rescue teams in the Peak District to assist the emergency services following heavy rainfall and a partial collapse of the dam wall at Todbrook Reservoir.

In a quickly developing incident, team members maintained a presence in Whaley Bridge for a number of days assisting the Police and Fire and Rescue Services with a number of deployments associated with the evacuation of …

Two team members were deployed to act as navigators to help the Mountain Rescue Search dogs England (MRSDE) handlers searching for a missing boy from the Wilmslow area.

BMRT team members assisted MRSDE, Cheshire Search and Rescue, Kinder MRT, Police and police helicopter were in attendance.

The missing person turned up safe and well at around 1:30 pm.

Another call out to the Roaches to assist

The team was called out to assist Staffordshire Police, Officialwmas and a Community First Responder with a fallen climber at the Roaches.

The climber had reportedly fallen about 10 metres and received what were initially thought to be serious injuries. As such the Midlands Air Ambulance was also requested to attend.

The casualty was assessed and treated before being placed on a mountain rescue stretcher. His injuries were found to be less serious than first thought but as a precaution and …

The team was called out to assist Derbyshire Constabulary with a search for a missing walker who had become separated from their walking group.

Due to the size of the search area, the team requested the assistance of Edale Mountain Rescue Team, and 3 search dog teams from Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England.

All teams were stood down just after midnight, with the intention of continuing the search the following morning.

Shortly afterward standing downs, the teams were informed that the gentleman had been found safe and well, …

The team was called out to a climber who injured their leg whilst on a climb at the Roaches. Their leg was extremely painful and the casualty found that they were unable to continue either up or down the crag to safety. The casualty was made safe on a ledge by members of their party, and mountain rescue alerted.

The team arrived on scene and quickly set up a rope system and lowered a team member to assess the casualty on the ledge they were lying on. The casualty was given pain relief before their …

It was a busy evening for the team, which began with our usual Thursday night training at Hen Cloud, and ended up with a call out to Errwood Hall, Goyt Valley.

The usual Thursday evening training session involved the team splitting into 2 groups to practice rope work and crag rescues. Just as the groups were about to raise their ‘exercise casualties” we were alerted to an incident requiring our assistance, at the Goyt Valley, east of Buxton.

The team was called out to a walker, who was out walking with …

Whilst en-route to the previous incident, the team were re tasked to respond to an incident local to the teams primary operating area to assist a male casualty who had been walking with friends. The gentleman fell about 20 ft down an embankment, suffering a knee injury.

Due to it being midweek, with many of the team at work, Derby Mountain Rescue Team was requested to assist.

On arrival at the casualty, he was assessed by team members, and his leg was splinted and imobilised, before he was placed on a mountain …

The rescue team was called out to support colleagues in Edale Mountain Rescue Team on a joint snatch incident to assist an injured person at Surprise View, Hathersage .

Just as the team had mobilised to this incident, details of another incident came through and the team was re-tasked to the incoming incident.

EMRT dealt with the original incident.