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27.3.2024 Missing Male, Brentor
Incident 14. The Team was called at 16:58 to assist with a search for a high-risk 72 year-old male missing in the Brentor area. 31 members turned out to search in steadily worsening weather through very muddy and slippery terrain, managed from our new Control Vehicle, which performed very well on its first outing. The…
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16.3.2024 Missing group of teenage walkers, north of Two Bridges.
Incident 13. While our Team was involved in incident 12, the Police called us at 23:27 to search for a group of four teenage lads who were on a training walk across the moor, from Postbridge to Little Mis tor. They had not arrived at their proposed camp site and their last known position was…
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16.3.2024 Unwell walker, NorthEast of Hare Tor
Incident 12. At 17:12 DSRT Tavistock was called by our sister team, North Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team, to assist them with the evacuation of one member of a team training for Ten Tors, who was suffering from a medical condition and could walk no further. Members from both Teams deployed onto the Moor in…
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2.03.2024 Injured walker, Princetown
Incident 11. At 20.09 our Team was called by the Police to assist an injured 65 year old walker on the outskirts of the village. The gentleman had fallen into a ditch and sustained an open fracture of a lower leg bone. The first of our members was on scene within 20 minutes and assessed…
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25.02.2024 Collapsed walker near King’s Tor
Incident 10. The team was called at 13.35 to support a SWAST ambulance crew. One member of a group of young people on an organised training walk was suffering from hypothermia and was unable to walk off. The group was located north of King Tor. Team members deployed from Four Winds Car Park and attended…
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23.2.2024 WWII Bomb, Keyham
Incident 9. As a Mountain Rescue Team, our members are used to serving our community, providing a search and rescue service on Dartmoor and other remote and wilderness areas. Over the last few days, we had a new, and very different, challenge. It has been an honour to join many other volunteers as well as…
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22.2.2024 Major Incident, World War II bomb, Keyham
Incident 8. Many of our team spent this morning deployed as part of a large scale multi agency effort to support the evacuation of residents in the Keyham area of Plymouth as part of the ongoing Major Incident declared following the discovery of an unexploded WWII device on Tuesday.
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12.2.2024 Injured walker, Brat Tor
Incident 7. The team was called at 1732 hours to assist a lady walker who slipped and injured her lower leg coming down from Brat Tor. The first team was deployed in a Land Rover, continuing on foot from the bridge. Other team members followed, ready to take a stretcher and equipment to the site. …
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3.2.2024 Collapsed girl near Crazywell Pool.
Incident 6. DSRT Tavistock was called at 15:03 to assist with an incident by Devonport Leat, north of Crazywell Pool. A 13year old girl in a team training for Ten Tors had collapsed and was drifting in and out of consciousness. Evacuation by helicopter was prevented by very low cloud. We deployed a hasty team to…
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1.2.2024 and 2.2.2024 Missing male, Burrator
Incident 4,.5 At 16:23 on Thursday 1st Feb the Police called us to search for a male who had gone missing near Norsworthy Bridge, Burrator at around 09:00. A search by a helicopter from the National Police Air Service had not proved successful. At 19:30 at Burrator reservoir it was agreed that due to weather conditions the…
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