Rescue teams called to person 'trapped in quicksand'

Image source, Edale MRT

Image caption, Saturday was a busy day for Edale Mountain Rescue Team
  • Author, Isaac Ashe
  • Role, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News, Derby

Peak District mountain rescue volunteers were called to free a person reported to be trapped in quicksand.

Edale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) sent six people to assist emergency services at Gillfield Woods at about 13:45 BST on Saturday.

The site, which straddles Totley Brook along the Derbyshire-South Yorkshire border near Sheffield, has some boggy areas where a person had become trapped.

Firefighters managed to free the person, who was walked back to the road unharmed.

A spokesman for the rescue team said: β€œThere are some particularly boggy delphs in that area, so team members made their way to assist.

β€œOn arrival, it was clear that the stuck person had been unstuck by the fire and rescue service - a good conclusion to a messy situation.”

Saturday also saw Edale MRT volunteers helping a walker who had injured their lower leg on Crookstone Knoll, near Edale.

A group of 14 volunteers walked to the site and then stretchered the injured walker to their 4x4 and then back to the road.

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