INCIDENT 68/2024. September 13TH 13.46 HRS. JANET’S FOSS, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) alerted the team to assist with a walker (F, 65) who had slipped on the path descending to Janet’s Foss and suffered a head injury.  After an assessment by a team member she was able to walk the short distance back to the road and taken in a CRO vehicle to Malham car park and transferred to the YAS paramedics. Volunteer hours: 20

INCIDENT 67/2024. SEPTEMBER 8th SUN. 13.47 hrs. SCALEBER FORCE, SETTLE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

A visitor (f, 27) slipped and fell a short distance at the foot of the lowest cascade of Scaleber Force, experiencing serious back pain. After assessing the site, the YAS paramedics requested CRO’s assistance with the rescue. Having given pain relief and put her into an insulated casualty bag, team members lifted the casualty onto a Bell Stretcher for the haul/ carry up the steep and slippery path. Casualty and…

INCIDENT 60/2024. AUGUST 19th MON. 12.02 hrs. NORBER BOULDER-FIELD, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

A walker (m, 58) fell from one of the ‘Norber boulders’ (glacial erratics) and sustained a serious ankle injury. As team members arrived at the road-head, an air ambulance was circling overhead. Arriving at the casualty site with a team stretcher (etc) they used it to carry the already ‘packaged’ patient to the helicopter for the flight to hospital. Volunteer hours:  21 Thanks to the farmer for offering off-road parking…

INCIDENT 59/2024. AUGUST 18th SUN 09.56 hrs. PEN Y GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

A walker (f, 49) was reported to have fallen on the path known as ‘the miners’ track’, to the North West of Pen y ghent summit, sustaining a head injury. As team members and a YAS road ambulance were en route, the walker’s husband told YAS that she had suffered a suspected broken arm but was being walked down Horton Scar Lane, towards the village and could be taken to…