INCIDENT 06/2025. JAN 8th WEDS. 20.48hrs. SCOTSTHROP MOOR, SETTLE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

The Team were asked by North Yorkshire Police to assist with rescuing two women whose car had become stuck fast in a snow drift on the minor road across Scotsthrop Moor, above Settle. Neither the police, nor any recovery organisation were able to help. As the women were cold,  two members attended in a team vehicle, using snow chains due to the conditions. We collected the women and transported them…

INCIDENT 04/2025. JAN. 6th MON. 07.34 B6255 NEWBY HEAD MOSS, INGLETON

Two males were reported to be lost in a broken-down vehicle ‘between Hawes and Ribblehead’ and had been there for eight hours. As the first team members arrived near the Newby Head road junction, they found that the Police had arrived only a minute or two earlier. When the car had been pushed back on to the road, team members stood down, leaving the police officer and a helpful farmer…

INCIDENT 85/2024. DECEMBER 11th WED. 09:24 hrs. MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

NYP requested CRO’s assistance after a member of the public found a person at the base of the cove believed to be deceased. Following confirmation from the Police that this was a fatality, team members assisted with the evacuation of the deceased from the scene and passed onto the undertaker. FATAL Volunteer hours:  70

INCIDENT 80/2024. OCTOBER 28th MON. 17.44 hrs. GUNNERFLEET AREA, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

North Yorkshire Police (NYP) received an incomplete call from someone (or some people?) who had walked off Whernside, was uninjured but lost and benighted, so couldn’t find their car. From some of the words given, he may have been in the Gunnerfleet area. It transpired that the call had ‘roamed’* to another network to enable the 999 call which meant that no-one could call back to ask questions and our…