Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) alerted the team to assist with a walker (F, 65) who had slipped on the path descending to Janet’s Foss and suffered a head injury. After an assessment by a team member she was able to walk the short distance back to the road and taken in a CRO vehicle to Malham car park and transferred to the YAS paramedics. Volunteer hours: 20
A visitor (f, 27) slipped and fell a short distance at the foot of the lowest cascade of Scaleber Force, experiencing serious back pain. After assessing the site, the YAS paramedics requested CRO’s assistance with the rescue. Having given pain relief and put her into an insulated casualty bag, team members lifted the casualty onto a Bell Stretcher for the haul/ carry up the steep and slippery path. Casualty and…
With team members still assembled at the Depot from Incident 64, North Yorkshire Police notified the team of a second group of seven walkers (f) missing on Whernside. Inquiries suggested that a group of three had descended into Kingsdale, while the other group of four was on the summit ridge. Two team members in a team vehicle located the group of three on the road near Yordas Cave in Kingsdale. …
North Yorkshire Police requested the team’s assistance to find two walkers (m, 45, f, 13) lost in the vicinity of Ingleborough Cave. Team members used team vehicles to conduct a preliminary search of tracks in the area, while other team members gathered at the Depot to prepare for a more extensive search on foot. A team Land Rover quickly located the missing persons near the entrance to Ingleborough Cave, cold…
