MEMBERS of North Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team helped ambulance paramedics rescue a woman in a remote location on the moor above Okehampton on Sunday afternoon (November 24).

She had slipped and fallen 400 metres west of Yes Tor.

The team were called out to help two ambulance service paramedics at 2.45pm.

It took them an hour to reach the casualty.

The woman was carried on a stretcher across rough terrain to a waiting Land Rover on a track above Okehampton Army Camp.

She was transferred by land ambulance and taken to hospital, where an x-ray revealed she had broken her ankle in two places.

NDSART team leader Dave Stoneman said the rescue had been ‘straightforward’.

‘She was on a family walk, with two family members and two dogs and it was a simple slip. She slipped and rolled over on her ankle,’ he said.

‘At the time it was felt it might be a severe strain and she went to hospital for an x-ray and we heard later that she had broken her ankle in two places.

Even the paramedics were saying it was probably a sprain but we said you need to take it to hospital and get it checked – so it was good that she did.’

Fourteen team members took part in the rescue, which took two and a half hours.

This was the second incident involving a broken ankle which the team have attended this month.