INCIDENT 16/2022 – MARCH 19th Sat 19.55 Park Fell, Ingleborough, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident
Three Three Peaks walkers (m,33; m,32; m,31) reported themselves lost on Ingleborough. Information from the 999 operating company put them on Park Fell (They had turned left at the hand-gate above Humphrey Bottom.), then a CRO PhoneFind message had them descending towards Whit-a-Green, near Selside. An off-duty controller walked up
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
A call was received by North Yorkshire Police to a walker (f,67) suffering from exhaustion and unable to continue. Unfortunately, the only information on location was an incorrect What3Words location, suggesting they were in the middle of Ingleton. Attempts to verify their location using Phonefind, our mobile location tool, were
A walker (f,67) slipped on mud and sustained an injury to her right ankle. Team members based in the Ribblesdale area responded with CRO2 and our all terrain vehicle, CRO4. Prior to the team’s arrival, a member of a neighbouring team, and his Doctor wife, happened across the incident and
A walker contacted North Yorkshire Police to report a cow that thad fallen from height and received multiple injuries, including apparently broken legs. At NYP’s request, CRO sent a duty controller to assess the incident. It was found that the cow had suffered unsurvivable injuries. Having ascertained ownership of the
North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance after a member of the public found a person believed to be deceased at the foot of Malham Cove. YAS and YAA paramedics confirmed that life was extinct, then, with the necessary formalities over, NYF&RS firefighters and CRO members lifted the deceased onto
As a CRO controller was out for a walk, he came across a visitor (f, 73) who had fainted on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail above Pecca Falls. She had recovered sufficiently to reach the refreshment cabin, but could go no further. When the appropriate team vehicle arrived (This was CRO
A lone, novice walker (m, 16) rang NYP to say that he was lost near Gaping Gill. He had been out for six hours and was getting cold, although he said he was in appropriate clothing. With 10% battery on his phone, the call dropped out before the Force Control
A walker (f, 41) fell on limestone pavement, trapping her foot so that she was unable to move and she soon became very cold. It was not possible to use PhoneFind or speak to her (Her phone may have worked via ’emergency roaming’.), but as CRO members arrived in the immediate
CRO were called out by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to assist them with an incident about half a mile along the Pennine Bridleway from the road head at Clay Pits Plantation. When CRO arrived we found that YAS had been able to drive their off-road ambulance to the location of

