A busy week for Mournes rescue team

A busy week for Mournes rescue team

20 June 2012

THE Mourne Mountain Rescue team has had a busy time dealing with four emergency call-outs in nine days.

The local team has dealt with three leg injuries during that time.

During one of the call outs the team received a request for assistance when a female walker fell and fractured her leg on the afternoon of June 16.

The team located the casualty in terrible weather conditions along the Mourne wall south of the summit of Slieve Meelmore and she was treated for her injury and hypothermia before being evacuated by stretcher to the Happy Valley.

The casualty was then handed over to the NI Ambulance Service for transfer to Downe Hospital.

Two days later, the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team were once again called to assist when a teenager slipped and injured her leg.

She was taking part in a Duke of Edinburgh expedition and was intending to descend into the Glen river when the accident happened near the Donard and Commedagh col.

The team approached the site from the Bloody Bridge quarry.

After her injured leg was splinted, she was placed on the stretcher and carried

back to the team vehicles at the quarry.

Driven back down the track she was later transferred to a waiting ambulance at the Bloody Bridge carpark.

The Mourne Mountain Rescue Team is a voluntary 999 Emergency Rescue Organisation and relies predominantly on the support of the general public. Please support the team by donating online via www.justgiving.com/mournemrt or by texting MMRT10 £2 / £5 or £10 to 70070.