INCIDENT 91/2022  DEC 1st THU. 13.24 ALUM POT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – CAVE INCIDENT

Having descended through Lower Long Churn into Alum Pot, a caver (m, 38) fell a distance of up to 5 or 6m from the bottom pitch, sustaining suspected injuries to ankle, femur, lower back and chest. CRO members descended to the casualty, assessed his injuries, used a group shelter and heated waistcoat to warm him, administered pain relief and ‘packaged’ him in a vacuum mattress (whole-body splint) then placed him…

INCIDENT 64/2022 AUG. 13th SAT. 13.45 TURBARY ROAD, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A lone trail-riding motorcyclist (m, 61) called the ambulance service, ‘complaining of shoulder, rib and collar-bone injuries’ after he came off his motorcycle on the Turbary Road, near Kail Pot, in Kingsdale. YAS called CRO, but possibly because the caller’s mobile phone had to roam to a different network to access 999, he could not be re-contacted to identify his position. A small reconnaissance party of members drove up from…

INCIDENT 50/2021 – JULY 18th SUN. 15.30 – B6479 road, near HORTON in RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT

CRO team members, on route to incident number 49, were among the first on scene after a traffic incident on the B6479 about half a mile north of Horton in Ribblesdale. They found a motor-scooter rider lying in the road – no other vehicle was involved. Having recognised the seriousness of the chest injury that the rider had sustained, CRO team members supported him until an event paramedic arrived from…

INCIDENT 13/2019 – Mar. 24th. Sun. 13.33hrs – Path to Pen y ghent, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue

While trying to take a photograph from the top of a limestone outcrop, on the path from Brackenbottom to Pen y ghent, a walker (m, 13) fell on to rocks, below, sustaining suspected chest injuries. After attention from a YAS paramedic, it was agreed that he could walk the short distance to a CRO Land Rover, which took him down to a YAS road ambulance, waiting near Brackenbottom. Volunteer hours:…