Latest Call Outs, Incidents & Other Events. Numbered Incidents are reported to Mountain Rescue - England & Wales

14. 29th April Search 19:40 hrs Staining near Blackpool. Team requested to search for a 46 year old male described as depressed and possibly suicidal. Person was known to be a fisherman so search concentrated around all the ponds and areas of open water on farmland adjacent to Staining Village, around Marton Mere and the local golf course. Teams training dog unit used around the PLS (Place Last Seen). Two search dogs from the Lake District assisting with the golf course the terrain was a bit flatter than their normal operational area! Team stood down at 00:30 hrs when the person turned up at there home address.  (130 rescue person Hour)   

S7. 11th April Standby Search 17:25 Hrs Prestatyn, North Wales. Team’s trailing dog and handler responded to a request to search for a person missing from home in Prestatyn. However, the person turned up, safe, before the dog unit could deploy.  (1 Rescue Person Hour)

13. 9th April Search 18:48 hrs Pressall near Knott-end-on-Sea. As we were about to start our weekly training session the Team was requested to search for a 77 year-old vulnerable male reported missing within the last hour. An immediate search of a local golf course was instigated due to a reported sighting. The search was stood down  just before 21:00 hrs when the person was located, safe and unhurt, some miles away in Thornton.   Our assumption is the missing person had used local public transport to leave the area. 31 Team members in attendance with search dogs from the Lake District  & Yorkshire Dales also responding.  (52.5 rescue person Hour) 

12. 31st March 23.11hrs Search Garstang. In an almost identical incident to our first of this year the Team was requested to search for a vulnerable female, aged 83, in the Garstang area. Reported missing from her home at about 21:30 hrs. The Team were about to undertake extensive searches of open farmland, woods, a local golf course including river and canal banks when the good news came that she had been found safe and well (15 Rescue Person Hours)

11. 29th March Search/ Pick-up 15:15 hrs Langden Valley, Trough of Bowland. Three youngsters undertaking a Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award assessment arrived at the Teams Smelt Mill base in the Trough of Bowland. They reported that another group were struggling down Langden Valley; one of this party had a knee injury.  Team members were told that the group was lost, and heading in the wrong direction, on the south side of the river. It had been raining very heavily for some hours, just as forecasted! Other groups were also in the area and their route was Dunsop Bridge, down Langden Valley via Langden Castle to Fiendsdale Head, over the fells and onto Waddecar Scout campsite. Contact was made with the group’s leader at Waddecar while three Team members set off in a Landrover to investigate. The group was soon found with another of their leaders, plus a doctor who was passing by who assisted.   All were transported to Smelt Mill where other groups had now also arrived. Hot drinks all round and a warm by the fire being all that was required until their transport arrived. (3 rescue person Hour) 

10. 25th March Search 20:00 Hrs Red Screes, Kirkstone Pass. Cumbria. Teams trailing dog and handler assisted Langdale Ambleside MRT with the search for a missing male, aged 67, in the  Red Screes area of the  Kirkstone Pass. Unfortunately the body of a man was found near Kilnshaw Chimney. (2 Rescue Person Hours) 

22nd March Safety Cover 09.00 - 14.30 hrs Fiendsdale, Trough of Bowland. The Team once again provided safety cover for the Fiendsdale Fell Race. No fell incidents to report.  (50 Rescue Person hours).   

S6. 22nd March Standby Search 04:33 Hrs Fulwood, Preston. Team Leader paged with a report of a female missing from home having received some bad news. Last seen at about midnight and reported at 03:00 hrs. Request was for initial searches of parkland, open fields & farmland towards motorway. However, just as a full Team page was about to be initiated the good news came that the person had turned up safe and we stood down. (1 Rescue Person Hour)

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Flag Days 2008

Chorley - Sat 14^th June
Clitheroe - Sat 5^th July
Preston - Sat 26^th July
Leyland - Sat 16^th August
Garstang - Sat 13^th September
Lancaster - Sat 18^th October