INCIDENT 76/2022  SEP. 15th THU. 11.34 BANK OF RIVER RIBBLE, SOUTH OF HELLIFIELD, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN* INCIDENT

An angler (m, 76) slipped down the river bank, South of Little Plantation, near Hellifield, sustaining a back injury.  YAS paramedics were first on scene and assessed the patient, before CRO team members helped him on to a Titan stretcher and carried him to the road ambulance.  He was helped into the ambulance and team members stood down. *Footnote: Although a river bank at 120m O.D. is hardly ‘mountainous’, the…

INCIDENT 60/2022 (same day). 20.11 INGLETON WATERFALLS TRAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

Wednesday being a training evening, a gathering of members at Langcliffe Scar had just dealt with two ‘casualties’ when the controllers’ alert fired off. A group of visitors to the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail had come across another visitor (m, 84) struggling (‘Stranded’, they said.) on the return leg of the Trail. One member of the group returned to the Trail car park to call for help while others stayed with…