The duty controller contacted the team to advise that a lady had slipped while descending Ashop Head steps and injured her ankle.  The team despatched two sections along with a stretcher to her location.  The lady’s ankle was splinted and she was stretchered down to Monks road before being discharged and driven back to her...

In another busy weekend for the team, we dealt with three more incidents.  The first incident of the weekend occurred on Saturday afternoon.  A group of people had been bouldering in the Woolpacks.  One of them had an accident and badly fractured his ankle.  As this was a serious break, an Air Ambulance was despatched. ...

The team we called just after 9pm by the Duty Controller tasking us with a missing person on Kinder Scout, initial information was very limited and we were unable to contact the casualty for further information. The Team Incident Controllers, put a search plan together to cover the likely areas based on the information provided, this...

As we were carrying out our final admin tasks from the pervious incident, callout three of the day arrived.  A group of four walkers were on the southern edge path of Kinder Scout.  One of them had slipped and injured his ankle.  It was badly swollen and he couldn’t put any weight on it.  We...

Our second callout of the day came through to advise that a man had taken a fall and seriously injured his back.  We called the informant, who was part of the walking group the casualty was with.  He said the man had been taking a photo of the group from a high rock at the...