YAS called CRO to a visitor (f, 25) with an ankle injury, passing on the co-ordinates provided by the caller. The YAS road ambulance and the CRO duty controller went to the site indicated, near Twisleton Dale House, but could find no-one and the caller’s phone was out of contact. As they searched, YAS control received a call from a different mobile phone, saying that the injured person was near…
A visitor (f, ) slipped, sustaining an ankle injury, in Quarry Wood, towards the end of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Team members walked in from Storrs Common and, having given mild pain-relief and splinted the lower leg, lifted the casualty in an insulated casualty bag onto a wheeled stretcher. She was wheeled to a team Land Rover, which carried her to the family car after she had opted to go…
A visitor (f, 60) fell, sustaining a knee injury, ‘between falls five and six at the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail’. As CRO controllers don’t have the falls numbered, a Phonefind text sent to her husband’s phone revealed their position as the path below Baxengill Gorge. Team members met at the Beezleys caravan park and, reaching the casualty, immobilised her leg, put her into an insulated casualty bag and carried her by…
A German Pointer called Frankie fell into the river, between the ‘Pecca Twin Falls’ on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail and was stranded on an inaccessible ledge (just below the one on which Meatball was stranded on Boxing Day). His owners called for help and members of CRO’s swift-water rescue team scrambled down, swam to retrieve the dog and brought him safely up to the path. Footnote:- As we suggested back…
