INCIDENT 55/2023 JUL. 6th THU. 13.32 POT SCAR, FEIZOR, AUSTWICK, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

YAS called CRO when a climber (m, 54) fell a short distance (<2m?) onto rocks at Pot Scar, Feizor. Paramedics assessed him and gave pain relief for a shoulder injury. Team members gave him further pain relief, lifting him onto a vacuum mattress to immobilise him, as a precaution. A mountain rescue stretcher was then used to carry him down scree and sledge him across grass to a team Land…

INCIDENT 53/2023 JUN. 25th SUN. 10.33 PATH BETWEEN PECCA BRIDGE AND THORNTON FORCE, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A visitor (f, 62) was reported to be experiencing chest pains and difficulty in breathing on the outward (western) arm of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, between Pecca Bridge and Thornton Force. As a ‘normal’ callout was being arranged, two team members and two medical practitioners from other cave rescue teams* were diverted from Yordas Cave to the casualty site in CRO 4 (the Honda Pioneer ‘side-by-side quad’). YAS paramedics were…

INCIDENT 43/2023 JUN. 10th SAT. 09.46 HULL POT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ANIMAL INCIDENT

North Yorkshire Police called for assistance in rescuing a sheep which had fallen into Hull Pot.  A small team was dispatched.  While one team member abseiled approximately 18m down to the sheep and persuaded it into a flight bag, four other team members set up a hauling system.  The sheep was brought to the surface and turned over to the farmer who owned it, looking somewhat dishevelled from its experience…

INCIDENT 24/2023 APR. 27th THU. 12.30 GORDALE SCAR, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE, MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A walker (m, 65) fell (possibly 3 – 4m?) from the climb up the lower waterfall at Gordale Scar. On arrival, team members began assessing the casualty’s injuries before being joined by a YAS paramedic. Although only a head injury was obvious, as a precaution, the casualty was placed, very carefully, into a vacuum mattress (immobilising the whole body) and this into an insulated casualty bag. The whole was then…