The newly formed PDMRO Water Team assisted Woodhead MRT & SARDA in the search for a missing person, who turned up safely at home the next day. Two members of Kinder MRT, with specialist water training, are part of this group made up of team members from across the peak rescue teams. The newly Read More…
This evening’s training was a kit familiarisation session. We were given various items from our medical equipment stash and had to make sure we remembered how to use them. It ranged from the important information of the new blood sugar testing kits, which we needed to learn how Read More…
It was a quick team meeting tonight. This is where we find out about events in the team and in the wider Mountain Rescue community. This month we had a significant increase in donations, partly due to the success of the team’s spring ball, organised by Sally, in aid of Read More…
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Just as we had finished callout 12 and put the vehicles away I received another call from the duty controller. The ambulance service needed our assistance in Woodbank Park, Stockport with a casualty who had fallen in the river. He was now out of the water but they needed assistance Read More…
The team was called out the look for a walker who had become lost after dropping his compass earlier in the day. Although the weather was clear very heavy rain was forecast and there was a torrential downpour shortly after the callout had ended. With assistance from the duty controller, Read More…
The team received a callout to assist the ambulance service with a casualty suffering from a medical condition in the Jacob’s Ladder area of Kinder. Before the team’s arrival the casualty was picked up by an air ambulance, which then landed locally and transferred the patient to one of our Read More…
Today we had been asked to help out with first aid cover for the Kinder Trog fell race. The race is a gruelling 16 mile trek around the Hayfield skyline with 3500 feet of climbing thrown in, in case the distance wasn’t difficult enough on its own. We were given Read More…
An evening meeting at Chinley Railway station car park, saw us quickly out searching for a missing exercise casualty. As we only had a few hours for this exercise, they couldn’t be too far away, so we headed off up towards Cracken Edge.
We sent four teams to converge on the Read More…
