INCIDENT 64/2025. AUGUST 4th, MON. 15.33hrs RIVER GRETA from INGLETON to BURTON in LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE and continued on 5th, TUE. from INGLETON to GRETA BRIDGE (TUNSTALL, LANCASHIRE).

North Yorkshire Police (NYP) received a report of a body, floating down the River Greta at Ingleton Bottoms. NYP and North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (NYFRS) responded, then called CRO to join the search. A combined effort between CRO’s swift-water technicians and bank-safe searchers plus NYFRS swift-water technicians from Skipton, Richmond and Selby searched from Ingleton Bottoms to the A65, then down to Burton in Lonsdale, without result. Neighbouring…

INCIDENT 63/2025. JULY 26th SAT 16.35hrs. MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

The team were alerted by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to a report of a walker (M, 61) having fallen and injured themselves near Malham Cove. Unable to contact the injured party directly, team members were despatched to the area to carry out a search of the Cove area. A number of passers-by indicated that they may have witnessed an incident, but the injured party appeared to have ‘self rescued’ and left…

INCIDENT 59/2025. JULY 3rd THU. 00:14hrs, HORNBY, LANCASHIRE

The team were called by Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team (BPMRT) to assist them with an ongoing search for a missing person (f,68) in the Hornby area.  CRO Swiftwater technicians were tasked with searching the River Wenning downstream of Hornby Bridge to the River Lune. Just as the search of the river was completed reports came in that the missing person had been located safe and well by  a BPMRT…

INCIDENT 12/2025. JAN 27th MON. 18.23hrs. PEN Y GHENT, NORTH YORKSHIRE

A walker, descending from Ingleborough to Horton in Ribblesdale, told NYP that he had seen triple flashes of light repeatedly for 15 minutes from the summit of Pen y ghent. Small groups of team members walked the paths to and over the summit in rain and high wind. Checks were also made for any aircraft or military activity in the area, but nothing was found. Volunteer hours:  35