Incidents

Rescue Burnsall

14th Aug 2020

Attendees: 22

Duration : 2hrs 0min

Total Attendance Time : 44hr 0 mins

Second rescue of the day. Call from Yorkshire ambulance service to a 17yr old male climber who had fallen approx 30ft close to the River Wharfe Burnsall sustaining several injuries. The casualty had been moved across the river in a dingy when the ambulance crew arrived. They assessed the casualty's injuries. The team assisted the ambulance crew, splinted him, put him onto a specialist stretcher and transported him back to the waiting road ambulance.