Incident reports

Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team assisted two walkers stranded in the North Pentland Hills near Edinburgh on Saturday evening due to deep snowdrifts. The team's standard vehicle could not progress through the snow, and the Scottish Ambulance Service's 'Wolverine' all-terrain vehicle was called to complete the evacuation.

Outcome: two walkers evacuated with assistance from Wolverine vehicle

Mountain rescue teams were called out after reports that an individual had seriously injured themselves while sledging near the Old Man of Storr. The attending team was able to administer pain relief and immobilise the casualty before they were airlifted to a hospital in Glasgow.

Outcome: Transported by air

The team responded to two callouts on Sunday, 31st January. The first involved assisting with a fall near Stocksbridge resulting in a lower leg injury. The second incident occurred in Bolsterstone following a fall from a horse, which resulted in multiple injuries requiring air ambulance assistance.

Outcome: Casualties were treated and transferred to appropriate medical services.

A man was rescued from a mountain above Aberdare after spending the night in sub-zero temperatures unable to raise the alarm. A passer-by alerted emergency services, and a joint operation involving South Wales Police, Central Beacons Mountain Rescue, and the Welsh Ambulance Service brought him to safety. He was treated for prolonged hypothermia.

Outcome: rescued and treated for prolonged hypothermia, evacuated by stretcher to ambulance

A mountain biker became disoriented on Black Hill and called for assistance. Due to the cold, the casualty was treated with warmth and food before being safely walked back to a car park.

Outcome: Safe recovery

A search operation was conducted for an overdue father and son on Scafell. The rescue effort involved multiple personnel over several hours.

Outcome: Overdue persons located/assisted

Mountain rescue teams were called out to assist with the rescue of a walker who had fallen in the Craigmead area of West Lomond. The injured individual was successfully moved off the hill using specialized equipment and subsequently transferred to hospital.

Outcome: Transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries

Mourne Mountain Rescue Team attended five separate incidents on Wednesday, including three walkers airlifted by rescue helicopter from Slieve Donard. Additional incidents involved walkers in difficulty on Slieve Binnian and a walker with a lower leg injury in the Glen River area, all attributed by the team to inadequate preparation for winter conditions.

Outcome: three airlifted by helicopter, walkers assisted or handed to NIAS

A woman suffered a broken ankle after slipping on ice near the summit of Caerketton Hill in the Pentland Hills on 29 December 2020. More than 35 mountain rescue and firefighters attended in severe winter conditions with wind chill of minus 10°C. She was evacuated by helicopter after rescue teams determined that a stretcher-based descent would have taken too long.

Outcome: evacuated by helicopter, recovering from broken ankle

The team was called out on Sunday, 27th December, to assist neighbouring Edale Mountain Rescue Team with an injured walker at Dale Dyke Reservoir. The individual slipped on muddy ground, sustaining an ankle injury that prevented them from bearing weight. They were treated on-scene and prepared for a stretcher carry back to the road head.

Outcome: Transported from scene to hospital

A resident in Gloucester was evacuated from their flooded home on Sandhurst Lane by the SARA Sharpness lifeboat team during flooding caused by the River Severn. The rescue was completed at 7:36 am on 26 December, with the resident safely removed from the property as water from the swollen river inundated the residential area.

Outcome: resident evacuated by lifeboat

A woman slipped and injured her ankle while walking on Crompton Moor on Saturday. Oldham Mountain Rescue Team and North West Ambulance Service paramedics jointly provided medical care, packaged the casualty on a stretcher, and transported her to hospital. The team was engaged for two hours and sixteen minutes.

Outcome: casualty evacuated to hospital by ambulance

The team was called out by South Yorkshire Police to conduct a search for a 25-year-old male who was reported missing from the Doncaster area. Searches were carried out throughout the day with assistance from other rescue groups and search dogs, but the individual remained unlocated at the time of writing.

Outcome: Unsuccessful (at time of report)

A walker became disoriented and benighted while completing the Beinn Dearg four Munros circuit in Wester Ross, spending a night out in poor conditions. She raised the alarm early the following morning, triggering a search involving Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team, SARDA, and a coastguard helicopter; she was located and recovered safely.

Outcome: located by helicopter and driven to Inverness to recover

The team was called out late last night to assist South Yorkshire Police in searching for a vulnerable missing person in the Goldthorpe area. After conducting searches across several areas over a period of six and a half hours, the individual's whereabouts remain unknown, and police investigations are ongoing.

Outcome: Unresolved/Ongoing Investigation

A lifeboat volunteer and training manager contracted giardiasis, a parasitic infection linked to sewage, after spending two hours in the River Severn during a training exercise in October 2020. He spent over three weeks unwell, including multiple hospital admissions, and investigators determined an 80% probability the infection came from human sewage contamination in the river.

Outcome: casualty hospitalised for three-and-a-half weeks, recovered

Two ambulances and a mountain rescue team were blocked by illegal parking while responding to incidents near Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. The first incident involved emergency crews attempting to help someone in trouble on Ben Lomond on Saturday, and the second occurred at Callander Crags on Sunday. Poor parking obstructed emergency access in both cases, with a car owner charged following the second incident.

Outcome: emergency response delayed by illegal parking; details of primary incident outcome not specified

Mountain Rescue was called out on 18th September to assist with an injured horse rider in woodland at North Anston. The casualty sustained injuries after a fall, presenting with pain in her lower back, hip, and shoulder. She was subsequently immobilized and transported via mountain rescue stretcher to the road head.

Outcome: Transported to medical care

Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team assisted Police Scotland in searching for a missing 22-year-old man in the Dingwall area. The person was located safe and well, and the search was stood down at approximately 10:30 am.

Outcome: missing person found safe and well

A 12-year-old girl fell from a rope swing in a wooded area of Glodwick, sustaining fractures to both arms and a knee injury. Oldham Mountain Rescue Team assisted with extraction from the steep location using their Alphin stretcher, and the casualty was treated and evacuated successfully.

Outcome: casualty treated and evacuated by stretcher