Incidents
09 Aug 2022 2022/42
Female ankle injury Ilkley Moor
The team was called out by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to attend a casualty who had stumbled and gone over on her ankle at the bottom of Rocky Valley steps...
Attendees: 15
Duration: 2hr 9min
Total attendance: 32hr 15min
06 Aug 2022 2022/41
Overdue diver Goyden Pot
Just before 2pm yesterday the team received a call that a diver had been reported overdue in Goyden pot. As the Controllers were working to call in specialist divers for...
Attendees: 4
Duration: 0hr 26min
Total attendance: 1hr 44min
06 Aug 2022 2022/40
Cragfast male Brimham Rocks
A call was received to assist with a crag fast 13 year old at Brimham Rocks. Local members were able to calm the casualty until team vehicles arrived and a...
Attendees: 11
Duration: 2hr 19min
Total attendance: 25hr 29min
23 Jul 2022 2022/39
Female, groin injury Great Whernside
The team was called out by North Yorkshire Police to assist a female with a groin injury, part of a well equipped D of E group on the bridle way...
Attendees: 11
Duration: 3hr 27min
Total attendance: 37hr 57min
23 Jul 2022 2022/38
Female ankle injury Bradley
The team was called by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist a 55 year old female who had fallen and sustained an ankle injury. Due to the ongoing Great Whernside...
Attendees: 10
Duration: 2hr 0min
Total attendance: 20hr 0min
19 Jul 2022 2022/37
Ankle injury Burley in Wharfedale
Very late on Tuesday evening, we were called again by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist with a 26-year-old male who had fallen and injured his ankle. Team members gave...
Attendees: 16
Duration: 2hr 16min
Total attendance: 36hr 16min
15 Jul 2022 2022/36
Female ankle injury Starbotton
The team was called to assist a young female who had hurt her ankle whilst on her Duke of Edinburgh expedition in the dale. We gave the casualty pain relief...
Attendees: 14
Duration: 2hr 40min
Total attendance: 37hr 20min
14 Jul 2022 2022/35
Vulnerable person Pateley Bridge area
The Team were called by North Yorkshire Police to assist in the search for a vulnerable missing person. The team had begun searching when the person was spotted by a...
Attendees: 20
Duration: 3hr 36min
Total attendance: 72hr 0min
09 Jul 2022 2022/34
Walker with ankle injury Wilsill
The team were called to assist the Yorkshire ambulance service with a fallen walker with an ankle injury. Local members were able to provide first aid until the team vehicle...
Attendees: 11
Duration: 1hr 40min
Total attendance: 18hr 20min
09 Jul 2022 2022/33
Climber fallen Kilnsey Crag
In the second incident of the day the team was called to go to the aid of a fallen climber at Kilnsey crag. Additional members arrived and assessed the casualty...
Attendees: 16
Duration: 2hr 55min
Total attendance: 46hr 40min
05 Jul 2022 2022/29
Casualty knee injury on track up to Rylstone Fell
Finally, as we were packing up from the previous incidents, we got our fourth Yorkshire Ambulance Service call of the day for a casualty with an injured knee on the...
Attendees: 6
Duration: 0hr 46min
Total attendance: 4hr 36min
05 Jul 2022 2022/30
Elderly male fainted Guisecliffe Wood
Just as the previous incident was completed we received a third call from Yorkshire Ambulance Service for an eighty four year old male who had fainted and injured his head...
Attendees: 9
Duration: 2hr 8min
Total attendance: 19hr 12min
05 Jul 2022 2022/31
Injured male, stepping stones Kettlwell
The second call of the day, also from Yorkshire Ambulance Service, came three mins later for an injured male on the stepping stones down stream of Kettlewell. Team members provided...
Attendees: 8
Duration: 1hr 19min
Total attendance: 10hr 32min
05 Jul 2022 2022/32
Injured female near Goyden Pot
The team were called by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service at 11.58 for a fifteen year old female near Goyden Pot who had a leg and head injury. Team members at...
Attendees: 4
Duration: 1hr 21min
Total attendance: 5hr 24min
28 Jun 2022 2022/28
Female fallen in canal boat
The Team were called to assist a casualty who had fallen backwards off steps in a canal boat and hit the back of her head on the edge of a...
Attendees: 9
Duration: 3hr 36min
Total attendance: 32hr 24min
26 Jun 2022 2022/27
Female with ankle injury Grass Woods
The team was called by the Yorkshire ambulance service to attend a fallen female in Grass Woods with an ankle injury. The casualty was assessed, and treated by the Team...
Attendees: 9
Duration: 2hr 23min
Total attendance: 21hr 27min
22 Jun 2022 2022/26
Male runner with an injured ankle Nidd Gorge
We were called to attend a 34 year old male who had fallen while running and injured his ankle. With the Yorkshire ambulance service on scene with the casualty before...
Attendees: 10
Duration: 2hr 13min
Total attendance: 22hr 10min
20 Jun 2022 2022/25
Fallen Mountain Biker
The Team was called to a 12 year old boy who had fallen while on his mountain bike on Farnhill Moor. As it was a team training night 2 vehicles...
Attendees: 21
Duration: 1hr 12min
Total attendance: 25hr 12min
16 Jun 2022 2022/24
Assist Swaledale Team with a female with an ankle injury Hackfall Woods Grewelthorpe
A small group of UWFRA volunteers assisted Swaledale MRT along with some members of RAF Leeming MRT. A 73yr old woman had sustained an ankle injury whilst walking in Hackfall...
Attendees: 4
Duration: 2hr 9min
Total attendance: 8hr 36min
15 Jun 2022 2022/23
Rescue of male in overturned wheelchair
The team were called to assist a gentleman who had overturned his wheelchair on a footpath round Fewston reservoir. The wheelchair had tumbled down a steep bank and trapped the...
Attendees: 12
Duration: 2hr 18min
Total attendance: 27hr 36min
To call the rescue Team
- Call 999, ask for the Police.
- Ask the Police for Cave or Fell rescue.
- Say where you are, give description and grid reference.
- Describe the problem.
- Stay near a phone or where your mobile works.
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