A visitor (f) was reported to have fallen, at the foot of the Malham Cove steps and was complaining of pain in her side and neck. As team members responded, this was updated to back and neck pain with numbness in her legs. After attention from YAS paramedics, the casualty was carried to a team vehicle and driven to Town Head Farm for transfer to the waiting road ambulance. Volunteer…
A visitor (m, 12) was reported to be ‘fainted, unconscious’, just below Snow Falls on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. He was later reported to have regained consciousness and complained of abdominal pain. YAS paramedics and those, plus a doctor, from the North West Air Ambulance attended to the casualty, before team members carried him, by stretcher, to a waiting road ambulance. After decontaminating equipment, team members stood down. It seems…
A walker (f, 48) stumbled on the final climb up the south end of Pen y ghent, hitting her head as she stood up again and sustaining a head injury. A passing doctor helped staunch the bleeding from the scalp wound and, knowing that help had been requested, advised that she might begin to walk back down. The first team members to arrive met the casualty’s party at the lower…
A walker (f) was reported to have fallen and broken her ankle in Trow Gill. It was not possible to confirm the exact location as the call went first via Ingleborough Cave (which was closed, at the time) and the grid reference given was to the East of Barnard Castle. Team members were called out and a CRO Land Rover sent to reconnoitre. As the driver reached the gate at…
