A visitor (f, 63) felt unwell, dizzy and possibly dehydrated, soon after passing Snow Falls on the return leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Her husband phoned for an ambulance and YAS alerted the CRO Duty Controller. When he spoke to the husband, he was told that the patient had been able to stand and would set off again, to walk gently towards Ingleton. A small team went to investigate…
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INCIDENT 26/2020 – Jun. 19th. Fri. 15.05hrs – Downstream of Snow Falls, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail – Mountain Incident
YAS requested assistance when their ambulance paramedics were unable to locate a visitor (f, 55), reported to have been taken ill on the return leg of the Waterfalls Trail. She was found, a little way downstream of the Snow Falls footbridge, assessed by a paramedic team member and assisted to a team vehicle. This took her to the road-head, where she was handed over to the YAS paramedic crew for…