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  • INCIDENT 27/2025. APR 8th TUE 12:35 hrs. MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Ambulance Assist / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    The team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to assist with a casualty (m,51) who had become unconscious near the base of Malham Cove. By the time the first team members arrived on scene the casualty was conscious again and being treated by the YAS Paramedics. Once the Paramedics

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  • INCIDENT 05/2025. (SAME DAY). 09.50   A FARM Nr HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE

    All Rescues / Ambulance Assist

        Returning from the previous incident, team members were asked to assist when someone suffered a medical incident at their home, believed to be inaccessible to a road ambulance, near Horton in Ribblesdale. Members stood by, as a precaution, until the YAS ambulance arrived and its paramedic took over.

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  • INCIDENT 79/2024. OCTOBER 27th SUN. 15.44 hrs. TOP OF MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (f, 78) was ill near the middle of the limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove. Team members, assessed her before helping her on to a stretcher. She was wheeled/carried to a team vehicle and driven down to Malham car park. After a further assessment by the

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  • INCIDENT 54/2024. AUGUST 4th SUNDAY 11:41 HRS. HORTON SCAR LANE, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    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

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  • INCIDENT 47/2024. JUNE 18th TUES 1720hrs. PEN Y GHENT, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    We were alerted by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to a walker (F, 42) believed to be suffering a medical problem on the descent path from Pen y Ghent. Team members and vehicles were despatched and a small team, including a YAS Paramedic and a team member who is also a

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  • INCIDENT 45/2024. (same day) 14.15 WHITE SCAR CAVE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Cave Rescue

    A visitor (m, 75) was reported to have collapsed in the Battlefield Chamber of White Scar Cave — the furthermost part of the show cave — but was now ‘sat up with a cave guide’ and unable to walk. After a thorough assessment by the team’s doctor, the patient was

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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 19/2024. APRIL 11th THU. 19.04  WHERNSIDE, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A Three Peaks walker called 999 after his girlfriend (19) fainted, repeatedly, at the beginning of the descent from Whernside towards Bruntscar. The CRO Duty Controller described what then happened: ‘The weather was worsening and it was starting to get dark. They had huddled down and she was in a

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  • INCIDENT 15/2024. MARCH 29th FRI 12.47. HORTON SCAR LANE, HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) asked for assistance when a walker (m, 54) experienced chest pains on Horton Scar Lane — a popular walking route to and from Pen y ghent. After assessment by YAS paramedics from the Air Ambulance the patient was carried the short distance to the helicopter, which

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  • INCIDENT 6/2024 MAR. 2nd SAT.  13.03 MALHAM COVE, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    A walker (m, 79) was reported to be having difficulty breathing after climbing the steps to the top of Malham Cove. YAS paramedics assessed the patient before team members assisted him in walking to a team vehicle on the Malham Rakes road. He was taken down to Malham village for

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