On a wet and overcast day on the Ingleton waterfalls walk, a 73 year old man slipped off the path – falling and tumbling about 20 metres down into the river Doe near to Snow Falls. The man was reported to us as being up to his waist in the water, able to talk, but unable to get out of the water. Before CRO had arrived, officers from North Yorkshire…
As team vehicles were returning from Malham, a visitor on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail expressed concern that his wife (72 and with a medical condition) was unwell. Returning team members were diverted to the Kingsdale road, for access to the Pecca Falls area. The casualty, who was dehydrated, was stretchered to a team vehicle which took her back to the family car on the Trail’s main car park. Team members…
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…
