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28/10/22 Injured Walker, Knowle Down, Walkhampton
Incident 25. DSRT Tavistock was called by the Police at 16:26 to assist South West Ambulance Service with the evacuation of an injured walker. The 31 year old man had slipped over and sustained a fracture of his right ankle. Our stretcher party reached the casualty site in 30 minutes. Ambulance personnel splinted the fractured…
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26/10/22 Injured female walker, North of Postbridge
Incident 24. The Police called out our team at 12:07 to assist the Ambulance service with a casualty on the open moor, north of Postbridge. A 15 year old female, one of a Dof E expedition training group, had slipped and fallen injuring her right hip and was unable to walk further. The location was…
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22/10/22 Missing High Risk Male, Milton Abbot
Incident 23. Our team was called by the Police at 08:43 to assist in a search for a 38 year old male, who had been missing for nearly 24 hours. Information suggested that he may be at high risk. We deployed two air-scenting search dog teams along with 23 other members for an extensive search…
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18/10/22 Missing Male, Okehampton
Incident 22. DSRT(Tavistock) was called at 0806 to continue a search for a despondent missing from Okehampton, last seen heading in the direction of Fatherford Bridge. Given that the misper had left the previous morning this still presented a huge search area, covered with many footpaths. Vehicle deployments and initial ‘hasty’ searches, including a dog team,…
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25/08/22 Call out to assist Exmoor
Incident 21: We were called today to assist Exmoor Search & Rescue Team in a search for a despondent who went missing yesterday. Effective searching of the dense thicket-stage plantations was difficult overnight, so we were tasked to re-search them today in daylight. A team Land Rover and 6 team members deployed to near Chawleigh…
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7/08/2022 Missing male, Pensilva
Incident 20. DSRT Tavistock was called at 18:43 by our colleagues in East Cornwall SRT to assist them in a search for a male last seen at 10:50. The subject of the search was known to have some symptoms of dementia. Not long after a callout message had been sent to our members to deploy…
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3/08/2022 Injured walker in Foggintor Quarry
Incident 19. DSRT Tavistock was called at 13:27 by the Police who requested us to recover an injured walker from Foggintor Quarry. The 61 year old lady had sustained a suspected fracture of her right ankle when stumbling on rough ground in the quarry. She was located within 20 minutes of the callout message and…
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25/07/22 Lost cyclist near White Barrow
Incident 18. We were called at 00:33 by Police Control to assist a lone, male cyclist who was lost on the track between White Barrow and Broad Down. He was reported to be cold but uninjured. We deployed from the Quarry Car Park above Peter Tavy and deployed two teams in our team Landrovers along…
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9/7/2022 Injured walker between Naker’s Hill and Green Hill
Incident 17. DSRT Tavistock was called by our sister team in Ashburton at 15:15 to assist a young lady taking part in a D of E expedition. She had sustained an ankle injury which prevented her from continuing. The group of four was sited in a remote part of the moor with no vehicular access,…
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06/07/2022 Missing male near Wotter
Incident 16. Around 10:00 DSRT Tavistock was called by our sister team from Plymouth to assist the Police in a search for a 36 year old male deemed to be at risk. As search teams were deploying from the search control near Beatland Corner the search was stood down, as the subject had been located…
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