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  • INCIDENT 44/2024. JUNE 15th SAT 08.23 PEN Y GHENT, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A Three Peaks walker (m, 50) was reported to have collapsed, with CPR being administered by an off-duty paramedic, near the summit of Pen y Ghent. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance also attended. Team members went to the summit plateau and assisted with the transfer and evacuation of the man to

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  • INCIDENT 42/2024. JUNE 8th SAT 1321hrs. WHERNSIDE, CHAPEL LE DALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    The team was alerted by both Cumbria Police and North Yorkshire Police to reports of an adult male who was unconcious and not breathing. Once it was established this was a single incident and the location was close to the summit of Whernside which borders both counties the team was

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  • INCIDENT 71/2023 AUG 27 SUN. 10:36 CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Local Support Rescue / Police Assist

    North Yorkshire Police asked CRO to assist with a search in the Clapham area for a missing person.  Following an extensive search team members found the missing person, sadly deceased.  Our thoughts are with the person’s family and friends.   FATAL Volunteer hours: 287

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  • INCIDENT 46/2023 JUN. 13th TUES 13:29 GIGGLESWICK SCAR NORTH, CAVE HOLE WOOD, LAWKLAND, NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    Climbing Rescue / Mountain Rescue

    A climber (m, 75) walked up to the Giggleswick Scar (North) crag, but collapsed immediately on arrival.  Despite the best efforts of his companions at CPR, then the protracted efforts of YAS paramedics, he could not be revived.  With police formalities completed, team members stretchered the deceased down to an

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  • INCIDENT 29/2023 MAY 2nd TUE. 16.42 HUMPHREY BOTTOM, INGLEBOROUGH, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A three peaks walker (m, 59) collapsed on the steep path onto Ingleborough at Humphrey Bottom. Almost immediately, his wife began CPR and this was continued by paramedics from the North West Air Ambulance, when they arrived. The first CRO members on scene found that paramedics from a YAS road

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  • INCIDENT 15/2023 MAR. 16th THU. 10.41. MALHAM COVE, NORTH YORKSHIRE, LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Local Support Rescue / Police Assist

    North Yorkshire Police called CRO after someone, believed to be dead, was seen on the ground beneath Malham Cove. A small team searched a ledge above the site, then the Cove edge itself for personal effects. Once police formalities had been concluded, the deceased was stretchered to a team Land

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  • INCIDENT 39/2022 JUN 11th  SAT. 16.54 Just on to SUMMIT PLATEAU, INGLEBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A Three Peaks walker (m, 60) was reported to have collapsed (believed to be in cardiac arrest), just on to the summit of Ingleborough, having climbed up from Chapel le dale. Members of his own group administered CPR until paramedics arrived by North West Air Ambulance. CRO members were ascending

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  • INCIDENT 11/2022 – MARCH 1st TUE. 09.47 MALHAM COVE, NORTH YORKSHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Local Support Rescue / Police Assist

    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

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  • INCIDENT 04/2022 – JANUARY 18th TUE. 16.01  BOTTOM WOOD, ROEBURNDALE, LANCASHIRE – LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Local Support Rescue / Police Assist

    One side of a bridge sagged under the weight of an ATV and trailer carrying a number of people* across it. The bridge deck twisted and the ATV and trailer slid sideways, falling about three metres into the watercourse at Bottom Wood, Roeburndale. It is understood that one person died

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  • INCIDENT 81/2021 – OCTOBER 21st THU. 12.32 MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Local Support Rescue / Police Assist

    Following a report of someone having been seen to come off the top of Malham Cove, Yorkshire Ambulance Service dispatched air and road ambulances, a Rapid Response Vehicle and its HART (Hazardous Area Response Team, based near Morley), also alerting CRO. Having determined ‘life extinct’, the Ambulance Service personnel were

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