INCIDENT 49/2024. JULY 1ST MON 10.31HRS. PEN Y GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Our colleagues at Yorkshire Ambulance Service requested the team’s assistance with a walker (f, 26) who had injured her lower leg on the path from Pen y Ghent summit down toward Hull Pot.  Two team vehicles drove up to the top of the track near Hull Pot, with team members and a YAS paramedic continuing on foot to the casualty’s location.  Once the casualty had been been assessed and splinted,…

INCIDENT 48/2004. JUNE 29th SAT 12.47hrs. TOP OF MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Our colleagues at Yorkshire Ambulance Service requested the team’s assistance with a casualty (f, 50s) who had fallen on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove and injured her wrist.  A team member attended, found the casualty, put her in a group shelter with her party, and directed the YAS paramedics to her location to assess her.  Additional team members assisted the paramedics in walking her to a…

INCIDENT 32/2024 MAY 18th SAT. 21.56 POOL SINK TO WRETCHED RABBIT, EASE GILL SYSTEM, CASTERTON, CUMBRIA.

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…

INCIDENT 31/2024. MAY 17th FRI. 18.09 PEN-Y-GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

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…