Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team News
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The team was called out to assist a walker lost on Black Hill. Initially the walker was in touch with Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team who tried to talk him off the hill by phone.
The team was called out at 17:08 on 1st May by West Yorkshire Police to assist with the search for a vulnerable missing person, reported missing in the Salendine Nook area of Huddersfield.
On Sunday 23rd April, the team carried out a stretcher handling exercise, which aimed to train team members on how to navigate difficult ground whilst carrying a loaded stretcher.
The Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team spent much of Saturday 8th April searching woodland near Micklefield for a missing person. 25 team members were involved.
The team was called out at 10:45 am today to farmland near Lepton, where an elderly gentleman had collapsed whilst out walking with his family. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance and medics from St John Ambulance also attended.
At 1044hrs on 3rd December, HVMRT was alerted by West Yorkshire Police to an elderly gentleman who had gone missing in Knottingley. The missing man had last been positively sighted at Morrisons supermarket in the town
The team was called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) 1559hrs on 1st December to assist a casualty on the Pennine Way thought to have suffered a fractured leg near to Black Hill summit.
The Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team was called out at noon on 18th November by West Yorkshire Police to search for a high risk missing person in the Holmfirth area.
