Our annual overview of the incidents we attended in 2022 is now live on our website at THIS LINK. Paper copies will be appearing from next week at our usual local hostelries and traders – many of whom have once again done us proud by helping to fund our annual report. As usual, we extend a big THANK YOU to those businesses which support us in any way. If you…
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INCIDENT 11/2023 FEB. 24th FRI. 12.37 FEIZOR, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT
A walker (m85) heading towards Austwick on the track from Feizor collapsed due to a suspected cardiac arrest. Despite the best efforts of the walker’s companion, Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and CRO, all attempts to revive the walker were sadly unsuccessful. FATAL Volunteer hours: 20
Mike Meredith, Former CRO Duty Controller
Mike Meredith, 79, an enthusiastic caver and former Controller with the Cave Rescue Organisation was found dead at his house in Kuching, Sarawak, on the morning of Wednesday 11th January 2023. Ben Lyon, CRO President, writes about Mike’s remarkable life. Mike was born on the 19th. July 1943 in Hereford. At the age of 11 he obtained a Scholarship to Monmouth School, and went on to Cambridge University, gaining a…
INCIDENT 94/2022 DEC 14th WED. 03.17 west of GIGGLESWICK, SETTLE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT
In the early hours of the morning, Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) asked if CRO were able to assist one of their crews. Their ambulance had become stuck on a track following attendance at a remote farmhouse. A small team of CRO members went to investigate and found that the ambulance had slipped right off the track and was stuck on a steep muddy bank. The ambulance crew had been unable…