Kinder Mountain Rescue Team

Urban Folk band Blackheart are taking a break from their 2010 tour to play a fundraiser for KMRT on 3 September 2010. Blackheart are Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Pilkington Their songwriting blends folk, country and even rock influences to create a unique style of beautifully crafted, instantly memorable songs that has been christened by the media ‘urban folk’.

Having built a reputation on outstanding live concerts and two albums , they are widely regarded as the fastest rising stars of the new folk generation. To find out more about Blackheart, visit their website www.blackheartmusic.co.uk or better yet come and see them on 3 September 2010 at the Great Moor Club in Stockport.

Tickets are £6 each and available from Great Moor Club, tel 01614832140 or Ken Blakeman. Tel  01614830215.

Broken arm? - Not for long with our expert training!

Another good training session tonight.  We were given a series of scenarios and were asked to practice using various items of kit to deal with the injuries.

We spent the evening practicing with vacuum splints, traction splints and extraction devices.  Very enlightening.

I still have trouble with a triangular bandage!

• Type – Assist ambulance service.
• Location – ’White Nancy’, Bollington
• Time – 16.00 hrs (approx)
• Team members – 20
• Duration – 1.5 hours
• Man hours – 30 hrs

After completing our training exercise, members were on their way home when the call came through to RV at a known location in Bollington. The team rapidly redeployed to assist the ambulance service at a local tourist location – ‘White Nancy’, Bollington.

An elderly gentleman had fallen and sustained injuries to both legs. One leg had a suspected fracture of the mid shaft femur, the other cuts and grazes. The casualty was immobilised and evacuated by mountain rescue stretcher to a waiting ambulance.

Phil Ridley – Team Training Officer

The casualty receives pain relief before being loaded on to the stretcher

I had just arrived home after the day’s exercise to suddenly get a callout text message on my phone.  The message said it was a remote RV in Bollington.  I threw my rucksack in the car and headed off.  I managed to get to Bollington quite quickly, but had a bit of trouble with the directions at the end.  I got to the agreed location to find Dave waiting for us to send us on to an RV about half a mile further on.  I managed to drive passed the RV and had to turn round to make my way back.  read more…

Mike - Crashed at the bottom of a crag

Sunday exercise seemed to come round quickly this month. We turned up at the hut on the hottest day of the year, trying to second guess where the exercise would be held. We aren’t allowed to hold exercises on the top of Kinder in the summer months, as there is a program going on to protect nesting birds on the plateau. If it’s an emergency, there’s no problem with access, but the National Trust ask us not to tramp around on the tops during the summer months….which is fair enough, I suppose. My bet was on a search of Ollerset moor, as this wasn’t one of the mandatory sessions, such as Helicopters, or Rope Rescue, so a search was most likely. read more…

• Type – Assist ambulance service.
• Location – Bing Wood, Whaley Bridge
• Time – 00:17
• Team members – 12
• Duration – 1 hour
• Man hours – 12

In the early hours of Sunday morning (only just gone midnight Saturday) we were called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service with the evacuation of a teenage lad who had sustained an ankle injury in steep woodland. The casualty was taken by mountain rescue stretcher to a waiting ambulance

• Practising throwing lines

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• Practising throwing lines

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• Practising throwing lines

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• Practising throwing lines

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• Suited up and ready for the cold, cold, water

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• Kinder in the evening

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• Water rescue practice

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• Type – Distress flares reported by member of public
• Location – Kinder Scout area
• Time – 22:16
• Team members – 1 + Peak District duty controller
• Duration – 20 mins

The duty controller received a call to say that a member of the public had seen red distress flares in the Kinder Scout area. The police had no reports of missing persons and further inquires from the witness indicated that it was almost certainly a firework due to the quantity and style of the “flares” sighted.

Chinese lanterns and fireworks can often be mistaken for distress flares, but we would always prefer somebody to report a potential sighting and let us look into it. Please remember – if you are using fireworks in the hills or at the coast, avoid red ones and inform the Police or Coast Guard about the display.

Darren Wallis – Team Leader.

• Type – Hillwalker, injured
• Location – Nr laddow Rocks, Laddow Moss
• Time – 12:oohrs (approx)
• Team members – 4 (KMRT), assisting Oldham MRT (OMRT)
• Duration – 2hrs (approx)

Four Kinder Team members on a crag/rope training seminar assisted Oldham Mountain Rescue Team with the stretcher evacuation of a teenager, who had sustained an ankle injury.

Darren Wallis – Team Leader

• Type – Hillwalkers, lost
• Location – Saddleworth Moor
• Time – 22:00hrs (approx)
• Team members – 6

Six members of Kinder MRT, attending a crag/rope seminar were put on standby to assist Oldham & Woodhead MRT’s in a search for a group of missing walkers. The group were located before we were deployed. – Darren Wallis, Team Leader

Darren Wallis – Team Leader