Volunteer rescuers from Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team Tavistock helped ambulance crews with an injured moorland hiker last weekend.

The police called the team out to assist South Western Ambulance Service with the casualty at Down Tor on Saturday, November 7, at 1.30pm.

An advance hill team was dispatched to Norsworthy Bridge, arriving at the casualty at 2.15pm. The team confirmed the location to the ambulance crew and assessed the casualty.

A second team left Norsworthy Bridge to deliver the stretcher and all the kit to the team with the casualty, joined by two specialist hazardous area response ambulance paramedics members.

The casualty was given pain relief, packaged safely on the stretcher and carried back to Norsworthy bridge car park to be handed to the awaiting ambulance teams. The volunteer rescuers returned to their Tavistock HQ 16.15pm.