A walker (f, 58) slipped on the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove, sustaining ankle and lower leg injuries. Her husband helped her to the grassy bank behind the limestone pavement, then called the Police. NYP called CRO, whose team members assessed the injuries, administered mild pain relief and splinted the injured leg before helping the patient into a casualty bag on a Titan stretcher. Stretcher and patient…
North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance in finding someone about whose welfare concern had been expressed and who was understood to be at Malham Cove. Team members gathered in Malham car park to await a briefing, but then NYP officers found the misper in Malham village, safe but very wet, in the heaviest rain for months. As the team vehicles headed back to Clapham, several members who live in…
A walker (f, 54) slipped and sustained a suspected broken ankle on the path from Water Sinks, just before it joins the path down into ‘the Dry Valley’, leading to Malham Cove. A small team of CRO members walked down from Langscar Gate, administered pain relief, splinted the leg, lifted the walker onto a lightweight Titan stretcher and carried her to a team Land Rover. This took her down to…
A walker (m, 48) was reported to be experiencing chest pains just beyond New Laithe on the path from Malham to Janet’s Foss. CRO members responded, but the first to arrive on scene found that the patient had just been loaded into the YAA air ambulance. They ensured the safety of the patient’s family while the helicopter took off, then escorted them back to the car, in the car park.…
