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ALERT only. OCT. 21st FRI. 17.25 – INGLEBOROUGH, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – ALERT No 7 of 2022

A visitor reported that her husband (67), a keen fell-runner but un-familiar with the area, had gone for a run up Ingleborough and not returned to Chapel le dale over an hour after the arranged time of 16.00 hrs.. When the duty controller tried to call the reporting person, the call went to Voicemail. Having left a request that she phone back, he then phoned NYP’s Force Control Room for…

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ALERT only. OCT. 16th SUN. 10.17 – FOOTPATH, SOUTH OF RATHMELL, NORTH YORKSHIRE – ALERT No 6 of 2022

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…

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ALERT only. OCT. 6th THU. 16.12 – Nr BEEZLEY FALLS, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – ALERT No 5 of 2022

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