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Being used to having a 'silly season' in the rains of November, members of the Cave Rescue Organisation were taken a bit by surprise, on Saturday, finding themselves called to six incidents within five hours.  Despite the sun and high temperature, not one was a case of heat exhaustion.

The first call-out was on familiar enough territory, working with the farmer to recover a sheep with a broken leg from Upper Long Churn Cave, at Selside (Horton in Ribblesdale). 

Our 'little bit of fun' around Birkwith on Monday evening (1st June) was CRO's 33rd incident of 2009.  Bearing in mind that, unlike some teams, we don't record a 'stand-by' as an incident, nor do we double count an incident going into two days, that's quite busy for any team outside the Lake District.  Fortunately, most incidents have been quite minor.  Click on 'Incidents' at the top of the page, then on '2009', for the most up-to-date action.

Volunteers from the three North Yorkshire rescue teams operating in the Dales shared a two-day training programme at Clapham and Ingleton at the week-end, but had barely finished when called to the real thing, at Giggleswick Scar