For our second callout of the afternoon we were contacted by the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) with a request to assist them with a gentleman who had fallen from height in woodland in the Marple Bridge area. He was in a very difficult location and they required a rope rescue to extricate him.

We were able to support the NWAS crew with medical assistance whilst we set up a rope rescue system. The gentleman was carefully transferred to our specialist vacuum mattress and rescue stretcher, before being gently hauled back up to the footpath, then carried to the waiting ambulance. We wish him a speedy recovery.

• Time: 17:08
• Type: Ambulance assistance
• Location: Brabyns area of Marple Bridge
• Team members: 27
• Duration: 2.25 hours
• Volunteer hours: 60.75
• Total volunteer hours for the year: 1,125.5

Neil Woodhead, Team Leader