A visitor (f) rang 999 for YAS, following a fall and sustaining an ankle injury ‘between Baxengill and Snow Falls, at the viewing bridge’ on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. With no response to a PhoneFind message, team members set off to meet at the Beezleys caravan park and the duty controller tried telephoning the casualty, to confirm her position. He was told that she had been able to walk into Ingleton…
YAS requested assistance when their ambulance paramedics were unable to locate a visitor (f, 20), reported, by a friend, to be having a panic attack on the outward leg of the Waterfalls Trail. With the location still uncertain, team members divided up the route and began to look for the ‘casualty’. She did not identify herself to those who were looking for her and walked past some of them, on…
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…
Having travelled by train and taxi, to follow the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, a walker (m, 72) found it closed, so tried to bypass the barrier. In a field across the river from the Trail entrance, he slipped and fell. Perhaps because of one of his medical conditions, he was reported to be experiencing breathing difficulty. YAS asked for assistance in locating him and then, when the paramedics had completed their…
