YAS passed on a call for a walker (m, 58) who was reported to have ‘fallen off a 1m wall’, sustaining a suspected ankle fracture on the footpath between Cappleside and Hard Head Farm, Rathmell. Team members were alerted but as the first arrived at Base to collect a vehicle, the duty controller learned that the casualty was in the sheep trailer behind a farmer’s quad bike, on the way…
YAS asked for CRO’s assistance when a visitor (f, 73) fell ’10 minutes from Beezleys on the Ingleton Waterfalls trail’. Local members were put on stand-by, but when the duty controller phoned the paramedics, they were almost on scene and thought that CRO was probably not needed. Members waited at home or at work until the ‘stand down’ was confirmed. Volunteer hours: 2
A caller to North Yorkshire Police reported three cavers (all m) several hours overdue from a trip into Gaping Gill, The CRO duty controller was unable to contact members of the caving club which organises the August winch meet, to ask whether they had any knowledge of the mispers, so asked a local member of the team to look for their car in Clapham. While she was doing this, the…
North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue declared a major incident relating to the significant number of wildfire events in the county during the period of very hot weather. All rescue teams operating within North Yorkshire were put on standby to potentially give logistical support. Teams were stood down the next morning. Volunteer hours: 1
