INCIDENT 17/2022 – MARCH 22nd Tue 11.38 Near Cleatop Park, Settle, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident

A walker (f, 55) slipped, twisting her knee so that she could not stand again, in a field to the North East of Cleatop Park, South of Settle. The call had gone to Cleveland MRT, who re-routed it to CRO. When team members arrived at the casualty site, the YAA paramedic, assisted by the pilot and two NYP officers had already immobilised the ankle and put the casualty into an…

INCIDENT 11/2022 – MARCH 1st TUE. 09.47 MALHAM COVE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT

North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance after a member of the public found a person believed to be deceased at the foot of Malham Cove. YAS and YAA paramedics confirmed that life was extinct, then, with the necessary formalities over, NYF&RS firefighters and CRO members lifted the deceased onto a stretcher. CRO members then transported him to the village, to await more appropriate transport.           …

INCIDENT 08/2022 – FEBRUARY 24th THU. 15.11 SCAR CLOSE, CHAPEL LE DALE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A walker (f, 41) fell on limestone pavement, trapping her foot so that she was unable to move and she soon became very cold. It was not possible to use PhoneFind or speak to her (Her phone may have worked via ’emergency roaming’.), but as CRO members arrived in the immediate area, Police officers had already found her. She was provided with a heated waistcoat and a Blizzard emergency jacket, then…

INCIDENT 81/2021 – OCTOBER 21st THU. 12.32 MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, LOCAL INCIDENT

Following a report of someone having been seen to come off the top of Malham Cove, Yorkshire Ambulance Service dispatched air and road ambulances, a Rapid Response Vehicle and its HART (Hazardous Area Response Team, based near Morley), also alerting CRO. Having determined ‘life extinct’, the Ambulance Service personnel were departing as the first CRO member arrived on scene. HART was stood down en route. Team members assisted a local…