The team responded to a request from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to assist with reports that cries for help had been heard from within one of the many potholes on Leck Fell, which form part of the largest cave system in the UK. The team became part a multi agency response including specialist units from the statutory services Police, Fire and Ambulance. Volunteers from the team were deployed and,…
Cumbria Police alerted the team when a party of cavers (2m, 4f) doing a through trip from Pool Sink to Wretched Rabbit in Ease Gill were reported by their callout person to be significantly overdue. Team members proceeded to Bull Pot Farm to search the route the cavers had taken, while members of the CRO Cavers List and underground members of Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) were placed on…
North Yorkshire Police requested the team’s assistance with a power wheelchair user (m, 36) experiencing mechanical difficulties. While the location was initially unclear, further information placed the individual on the track up Pen-y-ghent from Hull Pot. Team members out training on CRO4, the team’s all terrain vehicle, located the individual and transported him with his wheelchair down to Horton in Ribblesdale. Other team members then arranged the individual’s onward transportation…
The team were alerted by North Yorkshire Police to an incident involving a young child (M, 11) in Kingsdale. The child, part of an organised group activity, had crawled under a large rock and apparently become stuck fast. A small team was mobilised to assess the situation. Shortly prior to our arrival the group leaders managed to extricate the child from his predicament, none the worse for his adventure. The…
