North Yorkshire Police (NYP) received a report of a body, floating down the River Greta at Ingleton Bottoms. NYP and North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (NYFRS) responded, then called CRO to join the search. A combined effort between CRO’s swift-water technicians and bank-safe searchers plus NYFRS swift-water technicians from Skipton, Richmond and Selby searched from Ingleton Bottoms to the A65, then down to Burton in Lonsdale, without result. Neighbouring MRTs (Upper Wharfedale FRA, Swaledale MRT, Kendal MSRT and Bowland Pennine MRT) had been advised of the incident, putting their water teams on stand-by, as appropriate. However, they were not called in.
The following day, NYP’s divers and CRO members searched in the water and from the banks again from the A65 down to Burton. Smaller groups and a police kayaker then searched down to Greta Bridge (1 km before the Lune confluence.). Again, nothing was found. No cars had been left in the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail car park overnight and, at the time of writing, no-one has been reported missing, so the incident has been closed.
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