Edale Mountain Rescue Team Year Book 2020 2018 & 2019 Incident List EDALE £2 £2 Contents If you need help Team Leader's Report 2 Chairman's Report 4 1.Dial 999 EMR History Timeline 6 2. Ask for the Police and Mountain Rescue 2018 Incidents 12 3. Be Ready to give; 2019 Incidents 38 • Your name and telephone number. The Montane Spine Challenge 66 • The exact location of the incident Search Dog Flo 70 • The nature of any incident Friends in High Places 72 • The number of casualties Apply to Friends in High Places 74 4. Keep your phone switched on and with you so EMR Area of Operation 76 we can contact you. Donate to Edale Mountain Rescue 77 Collection Tins 78 Our Sponsors 80 Contact Edale Mountain Rescue By Post Edale Mountain Rescue Team Hope Valley Cement Works Hope Derbyshire S33 6RP Registered Charity No:1138626 Online www.edalemrt.co.uk/ Via Social Media facebook.com/edalemountain rescue Twitter.com/edalemtr Youtube - EdaleMRTVideo 1 The start of 2018 saw us dealing with “The The big news is the set up of our new digital Beast from the East”. The team deployed to radio network. This should give us clear assist the police and ambulance services in communications across all of our operational ensuring public safety in places badly affected area and beyond. This initiative is being by the snowfall. Whilst some of this was in undertaken as part of a Peak District wide wild and remote places, we found ourselves program, thus enabling communication all the on some steep icy roads in Sheffield assisting way across the Peak, between all the teams. the ambulance service in accessing patients. This has only been possible by the time put This meant that for a number of days in a into the project by a number of operational row, team members gave up time, took leave and non-operational team members. Early days and made themselves available to help testing has shown us the huge advantages the the community through the challenging network will bring - exciting times ahead. conditions. Our purpose built vehicles proved themselves more than capable throughout None of this would be possible without the this weather. ongoing support that we receive from the public. It is truly humbling when speaking to We visited a number of new (to us!) places. people who raise money for us the lengths Whilst not our core business, due to the close some have gone to and the effort that goes working relationships we have with our local in to raising funds for the team. We truly do ambulance services and police forces, we do value every single donation. It is only because get called to assist where our skill set can help of this support that we are able to keep doing them out. One memorable incident took us what we do, with the right equipment and to Rother Valley Park on a sunny weekend, to resources. assist a walker who had sustained a very nasty ankle injury off the beaten track. Ever the Steve Rowe innovators, we worked with the park rangers Edale Mountain Rescue Team Leader to cut a new path through some very dense vegetation to get the casualty back to the Well done Steve. In March 2020 he passed Team Leaders Report ambulance. I have never seen team members the Team Leader's jacket to Dave Torr. Steve (2018 and 2019) grin so much as when handed power tools! remains as a deputy team leader but needed more time to concerntrate on his day job in We work in close partnership with our the Northern General Hospital Sheffield. 2018 and 2019 were busy years for the team, The numbers tell the story… neighbouring teams in the Peak District. responding to 249 incidents across our patch – an Buxton Mountain Rescue Team are often At the time of writing this the Country is in incident every 70 hours on average. 249 Incidents called to assist us during the week, and we lockdown and the number of Corona Virus That we manage to respond to these incidents have been called out several times to assist deaths is rising daily. and provide excellent care to our casualties, 76 Equipment maintenance Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team with whilst remaining a completely voluntary service sessions incidents on their patch. We meet regularly as a region, with key operational staff meeting is a testament to the time and commitment all 180 Training exercises the team members give to the team. Whilst the and sharing best practice and learning points. public-facing side of the team is the Land Rovers 155 Fundraising events We also partake in a number of regional on blue lights and the red goretex clad team 960 Total events attended training events, getting team members to members heading up the hill, the reality of a train together, so when needed to work together, there is already a close working mountain rescue team today is more about what This equates to 20,312 volunteer hours - this relationship. goes on behind the scenes. is a massive 195 hours a week! This is just the time spent by operational team members, and With our new information management system, doesn’t account for all the non-operational introduced on the 1st of January 2018, we have supporters who put time and effort into been able to capture a true reflection of the team’s assisting the team in a multitude of ways - activities. truly the unsung heroes. 2 3 the team. This of course is in addition to our social Several of our team members are professional media accounts where we have in excess of medics currently involved in the fight against 15,000 followers on facebook. Corona Virus. We don't know what the future holds but I wish them all well. During 2019 we finally moved one of our Land Rovers into our brand new garage at Ringinglow. Finally I would like to thank all the members of The culmination of many years of sweat, blood Edale Team, operational and support for making and tears. It is brilliant to have the vehicle the team what it is and you the reader for your protected from the weather. We are still looking continued support of what we do. for sites for two more garages to shelter the other two vehicles we currently park in the open. Ian Bunting Chairman Edale Mountain Rescue Team We continue to be grateful to Breedon Cement who own the land and buildings where we are based. The team has had a long association with various companies who have owned the site over the years and which we hope will continue long into the future. You can generally identify how long someone has been in the team by what Chairmans Report name they refer to the cement works by; 1980s - Earls, 1990s Blue Circle, 2000s Lafarge and more recently Hope Cement and then Breedons. I have now served two years as Team Chairman but a dedicated fundraiser who during his time after taking over from Rob Small who had been volunteering for us raised in excess of £40,000. All of the money that we receive is put towards the teams Chairman for the last eleven years. Much of this money came from his association the running of the team and securing its future During this time Rob had spent many hours with the Red Lion Public House and the Victoria going forward. Due to all our team members guiding the non operational side of the team and Club at Whittington Moor in Chesterfield. Not being volunteers only a small amount is spent keeping the good ship Edale sailing in the right what you would call a natural partnership but an on administrative costs. Over the last few years direction. A lot of this work was done behind the immensely valuable one to us over the years. If we have been able to claim VAT back on all scenes, with his fellow team members not totally Graham wasn’t busy raising funds there he would the goods we purchase which is good news. aware of the amount of work he carried out. On be out and about with his trusty collection pot. However another task for Bob our treasurer to behalf of us all thank you Rob. I am pleased to say Graham and the people like him are the unsung undertake. He thought he was doing pretty well that Rob continues to be a leading light within the heroes of voluntary organisations like ours. Mostly this year when we submitted our accounts to team taking over the role of fundraising officer, no unrecognised and happy to work in the shadows our accountants for auditing. Only to be advised rest for the wicked. but without their dedication and fortitude we that there was a further amount of VAT equating could not operate. to less than £10 that we could claim back. The 2018 saw us lose one of our most dedicated accountant could have overlooked it but they fundraisers, Graham Brassington, who sadly I am pleased to say that we still have a dedicated didn’t which again shows how many different died after a period of illness. Graham was one of non operational support group who turn out on people and organisations have the best interests those people that you don’t remember joining a regular basis to help us raise funds come rain of the team at heart. the team, it just felt like he had been around and shine.