The team were alerted by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS), who were requesting assistance with a visitor (F 49) who had injured herself whilst at Scaleber Force waterfall, near Settle. Fortunately, whilst we were mobilising, the YAS crew had been able to assist the injured party to their nearby vehicle and
A walker (m, 58) fell from one of the ‘Norber boulders’ (glacial erratics) and sustained a serious ankle injury. As team members arrived at the road-head, an air ambulance was circling overhead. Arriving at the casualty site with a team stretcher (etc) they used it to carry the already ‘packaged’
A walker (f, 49) was reported to have fallen on the path known as ‘the miners’ track’, to the North West of Pen y ghent summit, sustaining a head injury. As team members and a YAS road ambulance were en route, the walker’s husband told YAS that she had suffered
North Yorkshire Police called the team to assist a canyoner (f, 14) who had fallen about 9 metres into the River Doe. Her group leaders had brought her out onto the bank, where she was complaining of back pain. Team members attended together with paramedics from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service asked the team to assist with a walker (m, 19) who had collapsed and suffered facial injuries on the footpath near Janet’s Foss. Team members assisted the on scene paramedics to bring the casualty to a nearby field where he was transferred to the air ambulance crew and
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) asked the team to assist with a walker (m, 78) who had fallen and injured his lower back on the footpath near to the River Greta. Team members assisted the YAS crew to place him into a vacuum mattress full body splint then into a stretcher
Yorkshire Ambulance Service asked the team to assist with a medical emergency for a walker (f, 69) who had collapsed whilst walking near Horton. Team members assisted paramedics to place her into a team stretcher then into CRO 3 which is equipped to transport a patient in a stretcher. This
The team were alerted by North Yorkshire Police to a lone walker (M, 53) who had found himself benighted and disorientated near the top of Malham Cove at the end of a long day’s walk, as he was returning to Malham. Finding himself on very steep ground with only a
Yorkshire Ambulance Service asked the team to assist with a walker (m, 89) who had fallen and injured his shoulder on the footpath near Janet’s Foss. Team members attended ready for the expected stretcher carry, but some astute local knowledge allowed a team vehicle to drive right to the casualty’s
YAS asked for assistance when a cyclist was reported to have fallen from his bike, sustaining possible rib injuries, on the bridleway from Water Sinks to Langscar Gate, Malham Moor. Unfortunately the call had ’emergency roamed’* so the caller could not be contacted in any way to confirm details. When

