Cave and Mountain Rescue in parts of Cumbria, Lancashire and the Yorkshire Dales
NEW YEAR ACTION
Submitted by karstmedia on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 19:41.
Our incident reports for all years can be viewed here
After seven weeks without an incident, members of the Cave Rescue Organisation were called out three times, last week.
On Tuesday (30th) a sheep was reported to be stranded on a ledge, high up at Gordale Scar (Malham). As a team member abseiled towards it, it chose to jump, landing, unharmed, three metres below, at the top of a high, steep, scree slope.
On New Year’s Day, North Yorkshire Police called the team to go to a 59-year old man from Barnsley, who had collapsed with a medical condition, on the ascent of Pen y ghent from Brackenbottom (Horton in Ribblesdale). After attention from Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics, from Settle, he was carried by CRO Land Rover to a road ambulance, for transport to Airedale General Hospital. He was discharged from hospital, later in the day
As team members were arriving at this incident, a second call was received, this time from Yorkshire Ambulance Service, to go to a 50-year old woman from Wakefield, who had slipped on ice, possibly breaking her ankle, on the Ingleton Waterfalls Walk. After attention from YAS paramedics, she was carried by stretcher to a road ambulance at Beezley’s Farm, for transport to Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
After attention from Ingleton paramedics, it was a simple stretcher carry from the falls path to the road ambulance at Beezley’s Farm.
The first New Year’s Day call was received at 12.56 and members were stood down from both incidents at 14.14. 25 CRO members were involved.. | ||
