Cumbria Police alerted the team when a party of cavers (2m, 4f) doing a through trip from Pool Sink to Wretched Rabbit in Ease Gill were reported by their callout person to be significantly overdue. Team members proceeded to Bull Pot Farm to search the route the cavers had taken, while members of the CRO Cavers List and underground members of Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) were placed on…
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INCIDENT 31/2024. MAY 17th FRI. 18.09 PEN-Y-GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE
North Yorkshire Police requested the team’s assistance with a power wheelchair user (m, 36) experiencing mechanical difficulties. While the location was initially unclear, further information placed the individual on the track up Pen-y-ghent from Hull Pot. Team members out training on CRO4, the team’s all terrain vehicle, located the individual and transported him with his wheelchair down to Horton in Ribblesdale. Other team members then arranged the individual’s onward transportation…
INCIDENT 29/2024. May 11th SAT. 16.58 BAXENGILL GORGE, INGLETON, N. YORKSHIRE
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.…
ALERT only. APRIL 27th SAT. 17.45 hrs PEN-Y-GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 2 OF 2024
A Three Peaks walker who had become separated from his walking partner on Pen-y-ghent reported the person missing to North Yorkshire Police, who notified CRO. As the Duty Controller was making preliminary inquiries so that a search could be conducted, the missing walker turned up near Horton in Ribblesdale. Volunteer hours: 1