As the team were cleaning equipment from Incident 87 they received a call from North Yorkshire Police that a group of walkers had not returned from a walk in the Malham Tarn area. After making further enquiries, the Duty Controller confirmed that the overdue party were accounted for and safe so the team was stood down. Volunteer hours: 1
Yorkshire Ambulance Service requested CRO’s assistance with a casualty (f, 38) who had reportedly injured her ankle and was unable to walk. When the YAS paramedics and the first CRO members reached the casualty’s supposed location, the casualty was nowhere to be found. Further inquiries determined that her party had managed to get her off the hill and transported her to hospital. VOLUNTEER HOURS: 7
A visitor (m, 80) was reported to have collapsed near Pecca Bridge on the outward leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. The team responded, as did the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. After assessment by the team’s doctor and being given sugary sweets, the casualty was stretchered up to a team Land Rover (The helicopter had been called away to a higher priority incident.). After a further check-up, he was driven to…
A long-distance caller reported that her partner — a 40-year old, competent, experienced and well-equipped fell-walker — having walked over Whernside, had phoned from Ingleborough to say that the weather was such that he was abandoning his Three Peaks walk and returning to his car at Ribblehead. She had heard nothing more and had been unable to contact him in the past six hours. With the team on stand-by, the…
