Incidents

Male ankle injury Ilkley Moor

20th Dec 2024

Attendees: 13

Duration : 2hrs 14min

Total Attendance Time : 29hr 2 mins

The team was called out by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist a group of walkers, one of whom had tripped damaging his ankle, whilst out on Ilkley Moor. Team members provided shelter and initial casualty care to the injured person, before handing over to ambulance paramedics. The remaining members of the walking group were escorted off the hill to the warmth of a team vehicle due to the cold. The casualty was then stretchered down to the waiting road ambulance for onward transport to hospital