The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to assist a walker (m, 61) who had become faint and dizzy on the path up to the top of Malham Cove and was unable to continue. After an assessment by team medics the casualty was assisted onto a Bell stretcher and sledged down to the foot of the cove and our waiting Landrover, CRO 3. He was then driven to Malham…
Yorkshire Ambulance Service asked the team to assist with a medical emergency for a walker (f, 69) who had collapsed whilst walking near Horton. Team members assisted paramedics to place her into a team stretcher then into CRO 3 which is equipped to transport a patient in a stretcher. This was then driven to a field lower down the track where the patient was transferred to the air ambulance team…
A visitor (m, 75) was reported to have collapsed in the Battlefield Chamber of White Scar Cave — the furthermost part of the show cave — but was now ‘sat up with a cave guide’ and unable to walk. After a thorough assessment by the team’s doctor, the patient was carried by stretcher to the cave entrance and handed over to YAS personnel who were waiting with a road ambulance.…
A Three Peaks walker (m, 50) was reported to have collapsed, with CPR being administered by an off-duty paramedic, near the summit of Pen y Ghent. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance also attended. Team members went to the summit plateau and assisted with the transfer and evacuation of the man to the aircraft. Other members assisted with landing the aircraft and carrying him to a waiting road ambulance. Our thoughts are…
