12 Oct 2009 : Thorpe Search

The team were called out to Thorpe, near Dovedale, in the early hours of Saturday morning (10th October) to search for a missing 21 year old vulnerable woman.

Police had contacted the team after receiving information that the woman was located somewhere in the vicinity of Thorpe Pasture. Team members were alerted by pager just before midnight on Friday and assembled at Thorpe Car Park to begin the search. The team managed to make contact with the missing person by mobile phone and started to search nearby hills when a light alerted rescuers to Hamston Hill, where the woman was located. Although cold, she was relatively unhurt, but was examined by a team paramedic and doctor before being evacuated by stretcher to a team Land Rover at the bottom of the hill. She was then transported to the road, where she was transferred to an EMAS (East Midlands Ambulance Service) ambulance and taken to the Royal Derby Hospital to be checked over.

Fourteen members of the team were involved in the search, with more members turning back whilst en route when the team were stood down once the woman had been located.