Rescue team secure a fawn-tastic outcome!

This fawn had managed to get itself stuck in the Ashway Gap overflow

After receiving a number of calls from concerned members of the public, Oldham Mountain Rescue Team were mobilised to assist a rather unusual casualty on Monday evening (June 12). 

A fawn had managed to get itself stuck in the Ashway Gap overflow.

After leaving it for a period of time to see if it would make its own way out, it hadn’t ventured further down where the walls were lower, so was essentially stranded as its little legs couldn’t quite make the jump up the higher walls. 

Using a rope, a couple of the team from the water section lowered themselves down into the overflow and encouraged the fawn downstream towards the reservoir, where it found some extra spring in its legs, jumped up and hoofed off into the grass - it really was a fawn-tastic outcome!

Whilst enjoying the sunshine, remember the basics - tell someone where you are going, check the route is within your capabilities and importantly that if you climb up / down somewhere you can make your own way back.

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