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The Team have been involved with 34 callouts in the past
12 months. Summary details with time and date are shown below. A map summarising
callouts in the past 12 months may be found here
(this is generated as a pdf document - acrobat
can be downloaded here if required). Alternatively a more advanced
version is avaialble here.
Previous years callouts can be found here:
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
1999 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981
1979 1978 1977 1976 1974 1972 1970
1969 1968
Please note: Online callout records before November 1999 are incomplete -
we are in the process of digitalising earlier years but it is slow process and
we're all busy people!
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Date |
Nature |
Description |
Online Links |
15.00
28/01/2015 |
Team callout |
Team briefly placed on Standby in relation to a missing male in the Chilton area. Team stood down before deployment as a result of information coming from the ongoing police investigation. |
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18.00
20/01/2015 |
Team callout |
The Team were called to search for a missing male with potential despondency triggers in the South Church area. The Team were stood down after about 15 minutes when the missing person returned to his family of his own accord. |
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09.00
18/01/2015 |
Team callout |
Search continued for the missing student in Durham city. Today's searching included the remainder of the river banks, a detailed search of the river in Durham City and and extended search by the Canoe Team down to Finchale Abbey. Nothing found. |
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09.00
16/01/2015 |
Team callout |
The Team were again heavily involved in the continuing search for missing student. We covered in detail the steep river banks around Durham City working closely alongside the Fire Service to allow us to clear as much ground as possible. Nothing found. |
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14.40
15/01/2015 |
Team callout |
The Team were called to carry out a bankside and river search for a student last seen leaving a night club at approximately midnight the evening before. The Canoe Group covered the river from Durham to Finchale while bankside searches were completed of the river banks in Durham. The river was in spate and the weather conditions horrendous making searching tricky. Nothing was found. The search was postponed |
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03.00
11/01/2015 |
Team callout |
Team called to look for a vulnerable male in the Chester-Le-Street area. The missing person was found by the police while the Team were assembling. |
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10.20
20/12/2014 |
Team callout |
Search in Chester-le-Street area for a high risk missing from home. 12 searchers plus a mountain rescue search dog and mountain rescue canoe group spent 6 hours covering woodland, fields and the River Wear. |
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09.00
09/12/2014 |
Team callout |
Team called to assist fire service with rescue of driver from a vehicle stuff in a flooded ford at Westgate in Weardale.
The casualty was rescued. Y the fire service at the team assembled. |
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14.00
01/11/2014 |
Team callout |
The Team were called a number of hours after a car crash in the Witton Park area where the driver had left the scene and not been seen since. The missing male arrived back at his home just as the Team were about to commence a search of the area around the crash site. |
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09.00
08/10/2014 |
Team callout |
Team called to assist Swaledale Team as part of an extended search for a vulnerable missing male in Arkengarthdale, Swaledale. The missing man was found safe and well while the Team were assembling. |
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22.h3
17/09/2014 |
Team callout |
The team was called to locate a party of six who had been off roading and got their vehicle stuck on the fell. Due to thick mist and very poor visibility they were unable to find their way back. Team members located them and evacuated them back to Edmundbyers. |
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22.h1
11/09/2014 |
Team callout |
The team were called to assist two canoeists who had become benighted on a trip on the river Tees. They were located and police were able to go to the location to evacuate them. |
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12.00
10/09/2014 |
Team callout |
The Team were called to search for a missing 39 year old female in the Trimdon Colliery area. The woman had last been seen about midnight the day before and was classed as very vulnerable. The Team searched woodland and farmland in the vicinity of the missing persons home. About two hours into the search the missing lady was picked up by the police following their appeal on Facebook and taken to hospital. |
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18.30
07/09/2014 |
Team callout |
Team called out to assist the other emergency service in the search for a teenager who was last seen in the River Wear at Finchale Abbey. MR search concluded at 2300hrs. At around 1100hrs 09/09/14 a body was recovered from the river which is believed to be the missing teenager |
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09.00
02/09/2014 |
Team callout |
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21.00
28/08/2014 |
Team callout |
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12.40
21/08/2014 |
Team callout |
Team assisted North East Ambulance Service with evacuation of casualty with serious injuries over difficult terrain in the Grassholme Reservoir area. |
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17.45
19/08/2014 |
Team callout |
Team called out at 17.45 to search for a high risk female missing from home. Less than 30 mins after start of search the missing women was found in woodland by a mountain rescue search dog. Casualty carried to NEAS ambulance by team members. |
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09.00
17/08/2014 |
Team callout |
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13.30
08/08/2014 |
Team callout |
The team were fundraising with a street collection in our home town to raise funds.
A message came in from one of our search dog handlers who had been at the street collection on the morning and was now exercising his dog at the Demeses, to say that his dog had found an elderly gentleman, collapsed in a ditch away from the main path and about ten metres from a fence.
The team dispatched three team members including an advanced casualty carer to his location while recalling our team land-rover with our equipment from another fundraising event at Winston.
The gentleman was treated and monitored, while team members set up for a stretcher carry to a position accessible for a road ambulance.
The casualty was handed over to a NEAS road ambulance and the gentleman was taken to hospital. |
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15.30
30/07/2014 |
Team callout |
Team called out to search for male reported to have injured leg after fall near Winston Bridge on the River Tees. Found soon after search commenced. Pain relief and splinting carried out by Team Advanced Casualty Carer |
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09.40
14/07/2014 |
Team callout |
Team called to search for missing vulnerable 22 year old male. His phone had been pinged to the mast in Castleside. Team stood down before search commenced |
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22.15
30/06/2014 |
Team callout |
Team requested to assist NEAS and the Fire Service with the evacuation of a man who had fallen and injured his ankle immediately above a drop into a disused quarry in Weardale.
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05.00
12/06/2014 |
Team callout |
Team requested to evacuate a body found in woodland near Evenwood across a couple of fields to the nearest road. |
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11.30
31/05/2014 |
Team callout |
The team were called to assist with the search for a missing 24 year old from Bishop Auckland area. 13 team members and a search dog searched areas of woodland and open ground in the area surrounding the gentleman's house. Unfortunately nothing was found at this stage. |
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08.45
31/05/2014 |
Team callout |
The team were called to search an area of woodland surrounding an abandoned tent. As the team was preparing to deploy they were requested to help with a search in Bishop Auckland so North of Tyne Mountain Rescue team kindly took over this search to enable us to attend the second one. |
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11.h0
29/05/2014 |
Team callout |
The North East Ambulance Service requested help from the team to respond to an incident on the River Tees in Piercebridge where two upturned canoes had been sighted. After arriving on scene the boats had been recovered and due to there being no reports of anyone missing the team was stood down. |
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10.30
20/05/2014 |
Team callout |
Team requested to assist in search for high risk missing male from Aycliffe Village. Missing person was found by the police while the Team were deploying. |
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09.00
11/05/2014 |
Team callout |
Team have been involved most of today (Monday) in the search for a missing Durham University student. The 19 year old was last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning near Baths bridge in Durham City. Steve Owers, Deputy Team Leader said " After a request from Durham Police we started our search early this morning. We used 4 of our canoe group to search the River Wear from Maiden Castle foot bridge downstream to Prebends weir. We worked along side the Water Rescue Team from Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue. Another 8 of our mountain rescue volunteers searched the river banks and a number of areas of woodland in the area where the student lived. Unfortunately we have not found any sign of him."
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12.40
03/05/2014 |
Team callout |
The team were on standby for a search in upper Teesdale after the driver from a crashed car had gone missing in the early hours of the morning. As the search was being planned he contacted his family to say he was safe and well. |
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01.30
29/04/2014 |
Team callout |
Team requested in the early hours of the morning to search for a vulnerable 75 year old male last seen at 8.30 the previous morning, but not reported as missing until late that evening.
Missing person found in Durham City by a Team Member en-route to the callout rendezvous point in Crook as a results of the description of the missing person provided. |
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09.00
15/03/2014 |
Team callout |
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07.10
10/03/2014 |
Team callout |
Team called to assist in search for missing 50 year old male from Durham City who went missing the day before and who's car was found by the police in the early hours at Blackhall Rocks picnic site. The Team searched all day alongside the Coastguard and other agencies covering all the ground between the railway and the sea to the north and south of the picnic site. Two Team dogs searched Castle Eden Dene and Crimdon Dene and were also backed up by foot searching. Nothing was found despite the extensive search. |
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Archive:
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
1999 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981
1979 1978 1977 1976 1974 1972 1970
1969 1968
Please note: Online callout records before November 1999 are incomplete -
we are in the process of digitalising earlier years but it is slow process and
we're all busy people!
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