Wednesday being a training evening, a gathering of members at Langcliffe Scar had just dealt with two ‘casualties’ when the controllers’ alert fired off. A group of visitors to the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail had come across another visitor (m, 84) struggling (‘Stranded’, they said.) on the return leg of the
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) asked for CRO’s assistance in reaching a local resident (m, 94) who had fallen, at home, sustaining a painful hip injury. The house is 450m up a track, mostly too narrow for a road ambulance, so the ambulance crew walked up. A team Land Rover
A caver (f, 73) was reported to be ‘low on energy and unable to move on her own’ on a through trip from Lancaster Hole to County Pot. While four members of her party stayed with her in Brown and Smelly Chamber, another came out to Bull Pot Farm to
A farmer called North Yorkshire Police, requesting CRO’s help, when a sheep became stranded on a limestone outcrop, about 8m from the ground at Feizor Nick. The farmers had tried to reach the sheep but its position was described as ‘perilous without professional help’. Concerned that a roped descent to
A 70 year old walker was reported overdue and missing by his companions. He had set off from Chapel-le-Dale at 6.30am, on what was the hottest day of the year so far, to walk the three peaks route starting with an ascent of Ingleborough. He was last seen at 10.45am
North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue declared a major incident relating to the significant number of wildfire events in the county during the period of very hot weather. All rescue teams operating within North Yorkshire were put on standby to potentially give logistical support. Teams were stood down the next morning.
CRO were called to help search for a vulnerable missing person who had last been seen at 18.55 the previous day. When CRO arrived at Ribblehead we discovered that the missing person had just approached two police officers and was in their care. A paramedic volunteering for CRO checked the
As readers of the CRO annual incident report, Rescue ’22, may recall, some of our members have been working with colleagues from the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association and volunteers from Mosaic (the organisation which aims to connect people from diverse communities with the outdoors) to produce a series of simple,
NYF&RS asked for assistance in rescuing a large lamb which had fallen perhaps 9 or 10 metres from the top of Catrigg Foss and was stranded on a ledge between the upper and lower waterfalls. A team member abseiled down, caught the lamb and persuaded it into the animal bag.
As the casualty from incident 51 was being brought down from Ingleborough, a call was received from YAS, reporting a visitor (f, 35) with a suspected ankle fracture on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail at Raven Ray Bridge (above Thornton Force). Those team members who could be released from Ingleborough were

