A visitor (m, 77) tripped and fell, sustaining a serious ankle injury. In the broken telephone call he made to YAS, he described being ‘in a field’ and said he could ‘see Gordale Farm to his left’, but gave no further information. Team members were alerted at the same time as a road ambulance was allocated to the incident. The first members arriving at Gordale Bridge learned that the fall…
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
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…
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…
