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22.08.2025 Missing walker, Bedford bridge, River Walkham
Incident 21. The team was called by the police at 17.10 to help locate an 85yr old male dog walker who lives with dementia, who had left Bedford Bridge a couple of hours earlier and failed to return. A National Police Air Service helicopter had already started an aerial search. A full team callout was…
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09.08.2025 Injured Walker, Tavy Cleave
Incident 20. At 17:21 the team was called at the request of the Ambulance service to extract an injured person from the upper part of Tavy Cleave. Hill parties were deployed from Willsworthy Butts, along the track by Land Rovers to take a stretcher and medical equipment to the casualty site. Rope rescue kit was also…
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28.07.2025 High risk missing person, Down Tor area.
Incident 19. The Team was contacted by the Police at 20:59 to assist with a search for a despondent missing person believed to be on Dartmoor. There were various reports of locations, and a sighting by a runner, indicating that they had taken a walking route from Plymouth to Burrator Reservoir and then out onto…
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25.07.2025 Missing person, Woolwell
Incident 18. At 07:03 DSRT Tavistock was called to provide additional resource to DSRT Plymouth in a search for a high-risk missing person on the north end of Plymouth. Whilst the Search Managers were planning the search strategy a member of the public located the subject of our search in nearby woodland. Our team was…
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12.07.2025
Incident 17. At 16:47 our team deployed a second time this afternoon to evacuate an injured walker from the Pipe Track near Cadover Bridge, covering for DSRT(Plymouth) who were already committed supporting the Hope 24 event. The ambulance crew on scene had already splinted the injured ankle, so we were able to transfer the casualty…
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12.07.2025 Casualty evacuation, Foggintor Quarry
Incident 16. The team was called out at 15:08 to assist the Ambulance service in extracting an injured walker from Foggintor Quarry. At that time some of the team were involved in rope rescue training so hastily packed up the kit and deployed directly there in our new Toyota Hilux, giving a lift to an…
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26.06.2025 Injured walker, north of Postbridge.
Incident 15. The team was called at 18.48 by the Police to assist the Ambulance service with an injured female stuck in mud above the East Dart River, north of Hartland Tor. A full team callout was sent, to RV at Postbridge car park. Hill parties were deployed on either side of the river to…
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22.06.2025 Unwell walker, Winney’s Down, Nth of Postbridge
Incident 14. Our Team was called at 15:27 to assist the Ambulance service with a 71 year old walker on the moor, who was reported to be experiencing severe breathing difficulties and was several kilometres from Postbridge. As our first responders neared the rendezvous point within 30 minutes of the callout we were stood down,…
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18.06.2025 Missing person, near Fowey
Incident 13. We were called by East Cornwall SRT at 10:28 to assist them in a search that was continuing from yesterday for a person missing in the Fowey area. Six of our members including a search dog handler deployed to assist, with others due to become available later in the day. They formed part…
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27.04.2025 Lost walkers above River Walkham
Incident 12. At 15:01 the Team was called by the Police to assist two walkers who had become disorientated during a walk above the River Walkham. The walkers and their dog had set off from the south side of the river, descended into the valley, crossed a bridge and then ascended a steep hill on…
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