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  • INCIDENT 33/2024 MAY 20th MON. 19.51 LECK FELL, LECK, LANCASHIRE.

    Cave Rescue / Police Assist

    The team responded to a request from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to assist with reports that cries for help had been heard from within one of the many potholes on Leck Fell, which form part of the largest cave system in the UK. The team became part a multi

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  • INCIDENT 88/2022  NOV. 15th TUE. 17.10  BROWNTHWAITE, CASTERTON, CUMBRIA – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Rescue / Walking Rescues

    NWAS called CRO when their ambulance could not reach a dog-walker (f, 48) who was found by a mountain biker and reported to be ‘disorientated after collapse’ on the bridleway near Brownthwaite Pike, Casterton..An update showed that the patient did not know where she was or what had happened to

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  • INCIDENT 59/2022 AUG. 3rd WED. 16.44 REMOTE FARMHOUSE, COWGILL, DENT, CUMBRIA – LOCAL INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Ambulance Assist / Local Support Rescue

    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

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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 76/2021 – SEPTEMBER 28th TUE. 13.53 – ‘THE HOPE LINE’, GISBURN FOREST – LANCASHIRE, MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

    All Rescues / Mountain Bike Rescue / Mountain Rescue

    Finding himself short-handed after a mountain biker (m, 38) was dismounted in a collision with a tree near Hesbert Hall, the team leader of Bowland Pennine MRT called CRO for support. Team members attended and when NWAS paramedics had assessed and treated the casualty, who had been unconscious and had

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