INCIDENT 57/2023 JUL. 8th SAT. 14.49 Nr PECCA FALLS, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A visitor (m, 29) sustained an ankle injury, so that he was unable to put weight on it, near Pecca Falls on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. After splinting his ankle, team members assisted the casualty to a Land Rover, parked nearby. This returned him to the Trail car park for his girlfriend to drive him to hospital, on the way home. Volunteer hours:  18    

INCIDENT 56/2023 JUL. 7th FRI. 18.35 DALES WAY ‘NORTH OF GEARSTONES’, INGLETON NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

YAS called CRO when a European visitor (f, 36) was reported to be experiencing chest pains, ‘a mile North of Gearstones on the Dales Way’. Telephone communication difficulties led to a lack of further information, so the team began organising to search from Winshaw, High Gayle and the Dentdale road at Stoops Moss. The Stoops Moss group had gone little more than 20 metres from the road when they met…

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ALERT only. JULY 5TH 1618hrs. GOYDEN POT, NIDDERDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 5 OF 2023

The team were called upon by Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) to potentially assist with an ongoing rescue they had in Goyden Pot. A number of members were placed on stand-by but were ultimately not deployed as UWFRA were able to resolve the incident successfully themselves. A good outcome for our neighbours and partners at UWFRA.

INCIDENT 55/2023 JUL. 6th THU. 13.32 POT SCAR, FEIZOR, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

YAS called CRO when a climber (m, 54) fell a short distance (<2m?) onto rocks at Pot Scar, Feizor. Paramedics assessed him and gave pain relief for a shoulder injury. Team members gave him further pain relief, lifting him onto a vacuum mattress to immobilise him, as a precaution. A mountain rescue stretcher was then used to carry him down scree and sledge him across grass to a team Land…