The team were called out at 5pm on Monday 31st March 2025 to reports of a Seventy-Four-Year-Old Male "suspended in a tree" above the river at Matlock Bath.
The team and other emergency services were dispatched to assist. Upon arrival the male was found to have fallen from a footpath down a steep slope and had come to rest against a tree.
He was assisted back up to the path by Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service and the team were stood down.
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