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Callout 9/2024 Birch Tor 14:00 15th March 2024

At 2pm on Friday afternoon the team were called to assist the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust with the evacuation of a casualty with a suspected broken leg from Birch Tor. Birch Tor is approximately 1km north east of the Warren House Inn in an area moorland riddled with deep mining gullies. Personnel from the Devon Air Ambulance Trust were first on scene. They were then joined by an advance party of our volunteers who provided a bothy shelter to protect the casualty from the worst of the elements. The main party then arrived and the casualty was then safely evacuated by stretcher. Technical rope techniques used in the steep, wet, difficult sections. Sixteen of our volunteers were able to assist.