2 Sep 2009 : Urban Search

In the early hours of the morning on Wednesday 2nd September, the team were called to Breadsall Village to search for a missing 86 year old man who had last been seen by his family 6 hours earlier. Twenty members of the team were paged at just after midnight and converged on a local school car park to start the search operation. The man was located by team members within two hours of the initial call out. He was found safe and well down a wooded embankment close to his home. He had been out walking and had got into difficulty after descending some rough steps in the embankment and had been unable to get back up again.

He was escorted by team members up to the main track and walked to a waiting EMAS ambulance, where he was taken to the Royal Derby Hospital to be checked over.

This was an unusual call out for the team, being more of an urban location than most searches, but as the surrounding area features tracks and small amounts of woodland, the police decided that the specialised skills of a mountain rescue team were appropriate for the situation.