At approximately 1600 hrs on Thursday Devon and Cornwall Police contacted the rescue team with a request for us to provide assistance to a South West Ambulance Service Trust (SWAST) ambulance crew in bringing an injured patient along a difficult to access footpath in the Dart valley approximately 1 mile south of Dartmeet. An initial team of our volunteers with a stretcher were dispatched from their rendezvous point at Dartmeet to the injured person's location and within 5 minutes they encountered the ambulance crew and their injured patient walking back along the path towards them. The patient, a 70 year old lady, had fallen from slippery rocks and had sustained a painful leg injury, but after medical intervention by the ambulance crew she was found to be fit enough to walk with assistance back towards Dartmeet.
Injured walker near Dartmeet
Callout 17/2022 - Dartmeet 16:00 16th June 2022