INCIDENT 38/2023 (same day) 13.17 WHITE SCAR CAVE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. CAVE INCIDENT

A visitor (m, 60), with known medical conditions, was suspected of having a possible heart attack after climbing the steps into the Battlefield Chamber at the extremity of White Scar Cave. Team members, the two fire officers and a police officer attended and the patient was found to be conscious and breathing. A team doctor assessed him and agreed that he could be walked gently back to the cave entrance…

INCIDENT 37/2023 MAY 29th MON. 12.40 Nr PECCA FALLS, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A CRO duty controller and two NYFRS officers were working on the risk assessment elements of an emergency plan for the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail when a visitor asked for help. His partner (f, 32) had sustained an ankle injury and was unable to put weight on it. They assisted her to a team vehicle and returned the pair to their own car to seek medical assistance. Volunteer hours: 2

INCIDENT 36/2023 MAY 27th SAT. 11.30 NEWBY MOSS, CLAPHAM-CUM-NEWBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ANIMAL INCIDENT

a) CAVE HOLE (BOGGARTS ROARING HOLES area) Two team members, walking from Ingleton to Gaping Gill, found that a sheep was stranded about 10m down in Cave Hole. Re-inforcements were called. A team member abseiled in and wrestled the sheep into a flight bag before it was hauled to the surface and released, a little stiff, but not seriously harmed. b) FIFE POT (GREY SCARS area) Cavers had also heard…

INCIDENT 35/2023 MAY21ST 16.38 GORDALE SCAR, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

Just as the Team were clearing up and leaving the scene of the previous rescue, members were alerted to another injured walker on the Gordale Scar path, at the foot of the gorge. A walker (F, 23yrs) had slipped on rocks near the path and had injured her ankle. Unable to walk out, the Team treated her injury and carried her on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance at the…