CRO were contacted by Cumbria Police (CUMPOL) regarding an overdue caving party who had been on a caving trip in Pippikin Pot on Leck Fell. As the CRO Duty Controller (DC) were making initial enquiries before mobilising any team members, they were contacted by CUMPOL and advised that happily, the caving party were safely on the surface and had been in contact as soon as they were in mobile phone…
The team were contacted by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to assist with a casualty (M, 45YO) with a lower leg injury which he had sustained on the footpath above Goredale Scar heading towards Malham Tarn. A full team call out was initiated and CRO1 & CRO3 were dispatched to scene. The vehicles met up with a YAS Double Crewed Ambulance (DCA) and also one of our colleagues from North Yorkshire…
The team were contacted by North Yorkshire Police after a walker who had just completed the three peaks raised concerns about a party of 2 walkers she had passed some time earlier as appearing to be making slow progress from the summit of Ingleborough towards Horton in Ribblesdale as night was falling. After speaking to the reporting person, a CRO DC local to Horton checked the car parks for vehicles…
The team was alerted by YAS to a female walker (46 yo) who had slipped on rocks on the footpath near Victoria cave. Team members along with two team vehicles were mobilised to the incident. On arrival team members carried out an assessment of the injuries and treated her for a suspected broken left ankle which was splinted before being carried by stretcher to the team vehicles. She was then…
