Whilst the majority of the team were engaged with the previous incident, a small number of members were providing safety cover at a local annual fell race in Horton. These members were alerted by the Race Control to a runner who had become injured on the descent from the summit of Pen y Ghent. Vehicles and members were despatched to the site to offer assistance. On arrival they found two…
A visitor (f, 43) slipped and sustained an ankle injury, below Beezley Falls, on the return leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Team members splinted the ankle then carried and wheeled the patient, by stretcher, to a YAS road ambulance at Falls Park caravan site. The other members of her family were driven back to their car, on the Trail car park, so they could follow the ambulance to hospital.…
The Team received an early morning alert from Lancashire Police to assist a walker (F, 56) who had injured her ankle whilst on a group walk. We had also received an earlier ‘heads up’ from one of our off-duty members who was passing the site whilst guiding his own group. The walker in question had slipped on the still icy path (despite the good weather it was still only 2…
A walker (m, 64) slipped while walking from Ingleborough to Park Fell, sustaining a suspected broken ankle. A ‘hasty party’ (fell-runners with initial equipment) assessed and splinted the injury and put the patient into an insulated casualty bag. After further assessment by the team doctor, the patient was lifted onto a Bell stretcher and sledged/carried down to a team vehicle which took him to the YAS ambulance, waiting at the…
