The team were involved in a major search which started in the early hours of Sunday morning for lone male walker in the central fells
We assisted with a search for 4 people overdue from Scafell Pike. They were located cold but OK.
Requested to assist Wasdale MRT with a semiconscious male casualty on Esk Pike.. Team were responding when we were notified that the correct location was Scafell Pike. We stood down.
A man was reported as having failed to return from a walk from the previous day. We were in the early stages of organising a search when he turned up.
A father and son from Formby were reported missing. 14 search dogs from Lakes, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cleveland areas called to assist and flown to the area by a helicopter from RAF Boulmer. Found about midday safe and well, had been totally lost. Wasdale and Keswick teams also assisted.
The Wasdale and Keswick teams requested our assistance when 2 schoolboys were reported missing. Searchdogs checked the Rossett Gill, Angle Tarn, Esk Hause areas. At first light small group of team members airlifted to Scafell by a helicopter from RAF Boulmer about mid day, boys found safe and well in Eskdale.
A search was mounted when a 43year old man from Aberdeen failed to return from a walk. Team assisted by search dogs and Keswick MRT. Located him at 2.05 am near Pike-o'-Blisco. Team a'so found some police cadets who were missinp. Everyone escorted to safety.
Parents raised the alarm when 2 young men failed to return from a fellwalk. The team assisted by search dogs and Keswick MRT located both men in Borrowdale.
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