A walker (f, 58) slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove, sustaining ankle and lower leg injuries. Her husband helped her to the grassy bank behind the limestone pavement, then called the Police. NYP called CRO, whose team members assessed the injuries, administered mild pain relief and splinted the injured leg before helping the patient into a casualty bag on a Titan stretcher. Stretcher and patient…
YAS reported that although an ambulance was on its way from Settle, the crew would need CRO’s assistance with a walker (f, 60) who was unable to stand, feeling dizzy and faint, at the top of Malham Cove. After attention from the paramedics, the patient was able to stand. Team members assisted her to a team Land Rover which took her and the YAS personnel to the road ambulance. Team…
North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance in finding someone about whose welfare concern had been expressed and who was understood to be at Malham Cove. Team members gathered in Malham car park to await a briefing, but then NYP officers found the misper in Malham village, safe but very wet, in the heaviest rain for months. As the team vehicles headed back to Clapham, several members who live in…
After a rain shower, a walker (f, 63) slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove, sustaining an ankle injury. Having transported YAS paramedics to the casualty site so that they might attend to the injured visitor, team members evacuated her to a team Land Rover on a wheeled stretcher. She was driven down to Malham village for transfer to the YAS road ambulance. Volunteer hours: 25…
