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
YAS called CRO to a visitor (f, 25) with an ankle injury, passing on the co-ordinates provided by the caller. The YAS road ambulance and the CRO duty controller went to the site indicated, near Twisleton Dale House, but could find no-one and the caller’s phone was out of contact. As they searched, YAS control received a call from a different mobile phone, saying that the injured person was near…
