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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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31.1.2024 Missing 90 year old male, N.Brentor
Incident 3. Our team was called at 14:00 to assist the Police in a search for a missing 90 year old male. He was last seen at his home address in the early morning, not dressed for the current weather. Two search parties were deployed, but not long after their searching began further information was…
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19.1.2024 Missing high risk Male , Burrator
Incident 2. At 08:59 our team was called by the Police to resume a search of the Burrator area for the subject of our previous search who was believed to still be on the moor in spite of freezing overnight conditions. A multi-agency search began involving our members along with Police, including a dog team…
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18.1.2024 Missing high Risk Male, Burrator
Incident 1. DSRT Tavistock was called by the Police at 21:10 to search for a 56 year old male who was deemed to be at high risk. He was last seen near Burrator Reservoir at 10:00. Search parties, including a Search Dog team, were deployed in sub-zero temperatures and searched woodland and open moorland until…
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31.12.23 Injured walker near Down Tor
Incident 26. DSRT Tavistock was called by the Police at 15:55 on New Year’s Eve to assist an injured walker near Down Tor, who had slipped off a rock and was unable to walk. It had been a particularly wet and windy day, and was now getting dark. A PhoneFind was sent to confirm their…
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21.12.23 Assist Ambulance Service with a patient
Incident 25. DSRT Tavistock was called at 05:54 to assist South West Ambulance Trust personnel in removing an 84 year old male patient from the upper storey of a cottage on the outskirts of Lydford, near the National Trust White Lady Waterfall car park. Due to the narrow staircase a stretcher could not be used, and so…
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