A walker keyed 999, telling North Yorkshire Police that two other walkers were calling for help, that he was on the Swine Tail and that he was heading towards the pair to investigate. The Duty Controller was unable to call the reporting party back*, so there was no further information. As members began responding, a strange message was received from Yorkshire Ambulance Service; it included only a house address in Ingleton and the words ‘peak of Ingleborough . . . . female fitting’. This was ascertained to be the same incident. A Yorkshire Air Ambulance flew in, landing about 40m from the casualty, just as the first CRO member also arrived there. The casualty, who had been in and out of consciousness, seemed to be improving, so team members assisted in carrying her to the helicopter, while others waited on the lower slope, in case they were needed. The patient was flown to hospital and the team returned to the road-head
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[* Perhaps the call used ‘Emergency Roaming’, a facility enabling 999 calls to be made on a different network when the user’s own network allows no signal? Unfortunately, in this situation it is not possible for anyone to call back.]