The team were called out to Dove Dale on the afternoon of Saturday 10th August to assist a 9-year-old girl who had injured her leg whilst on Thorpe Cloud.
She was treated and then evacuated by stretcher backed up by rope off the steep hillside and handed over to the waiting East Midlands Ambulance Service ambulance to take her to hospital.
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