Callouts 2010

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5 January 2010 11.10 hrs

Following further heavy snow fall, the Team was paged by the police and asked to transport our (now regular!) man from Dent to attend the Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal for dialysis. No problem – happy to help!

6 January 2010 09.00 hrs

The Team was requested to assist in moving an elderly lady who was feeling ill. Two team members attended the property in Grange-over-Sands where they met an ambulance crew on scene. Between them the lady was transferred into a team Land Rover and then taken down a steep ungritted hill to the waiting ambulance for onward transport to hospital.

A local reporter from BBC Radio Cumbria recorded the incident and it went out on local radio about an hour later.

8 January 2010 15.30 hrs

The Team was asked to transport an elderly lady from Crook to a care home in Staveley during the bad weather.

24 January 2010 15.05 hrs

We were asked to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team in evacuating a casualty from Crinkle Crags. One of a small party had slipped and sustained a wrist injury. They were located just as darkness fell in the upper regions of Rest Gill and helped down from the fell.

20 February 2010 16.15 hrs

A male sustained a suspected (and very painful) hamstring injury after slipping on ice. We were called to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team in stretchering him down from the east side of Stickle Tarn to the valley floor. He was then transported to hospital.

2 March 2010 21.15 hrs

The Team's Leader Group were paged by the police following a report of a flare being seen in the area of Boundary Bank near Kendal. Enquiries were made but this was a one-off sighting and there were no other reports. It was agreed with the police that no further action would be taken unless there were further reports and/or information. The rest of the Team was not paged.

19 March 2010 12.00 hrs

The Team was called to assist a 62 year old female who had fallen on the main path down from Gummers How. She was found to have a lower leg injury so the team administered pain relief, splinted her leg and stretchered her down to a waiting Ambulance for onward transport to hospital.

21 March 2010 12.30 hrs

The Team was paged by the police following reports of a male around 50 years old appearing dizzy and confused on Hampsfell near Grange-over-Sands. The team found the casualty unable to make his own way down so he was stretchered to one of our Land Rovers and taken down to a waiting ambulance.

26 March 2010 21.00 hrs

The Team was asked to assist the Kirkby Stephen team by relieving other teams in a search for two missing persons to the north of the A66. We were asked to assemble at out base at 04.00hrs on Saturday 27 March. Fortunately, the missing persons were found and we were stood down at 22.55hrs.

30 March 2010 08.45 hrs

We were called to assist other teams in a search for a 68 year old man who had been missing all night on the moors above Garsdale. He was found at about 11.30 hrs on Garsdale Common by search dog Misty (handler Des - SARDA and Teesdale & Weardale Team). He was wet, exhausted and very cold but otherwise in good spirits. We were searching nearby so we assisted in carrying him down to the road where we transferred him to an ambulance for onward transport to hospital in Lancaster.

13 April 2010 17.10 hrs

The Langdale & Ambleside Team were called to assist a male with a dislocated knee at the top of Rossett Gill, Great Langdale. As there was some doubt about the availability of an air ambulance and there was a high probability of a long steep carry-off, we were asked if we could provide a vehicle full of team members to help. We sent one of our Land Rovers and five personnel to the bottom of the Rossett Gill path but we were stood down when an air ambulance did arrive and the casualty was flown to hospital.

17 April 2010 14.20 hrs

The Team was asked to attend Gummers How to assist a 58 year old male from Middlesborough who had been reported as "fallen, unknown injuries". We met the casualty walking down the main path with an ambulance crew. He had apparently tripped and sustained lacerations to his head. He was transported on to hospital in the ambulance.

10 May 2010 20.00 hrs

We were asked to assist the North West Ambulance Service with a casualty who had fallen from a mountain bike at Fell Foot Brow. As the Team was assembling, we were told that an ambulance crew was with the casualty and we were stood down.

26 May 2010 13.20 hrs

A group of four men were climbing Jack's Rake on Pavey Ark (Great Langdale). One of them fell, sustaining a very painful dislocated shoulder and we were requested to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team. On the way up we enjoyed a good sample of late May Lake District weather - sun, hail and torrential rain. A Sea King helicopter was requested at an early stage and we were please to hear that there was one in the area. Unfortunately, it developed a fault and another Sea King was tasked from RAF Valley with a 50 minute fly time. Again unfortunately, this aircraft was diverted to deal with incidents in the Buttermere and Keswick areas. The teams were contemplating hauling the casualty up to the top of Jack's Rake and undertaking a very long and difficult carry-off by stretcher but fortunately the Sea King eventually arrived, winching the casualty up and taking him to hospital.

2 June 2010 18.30 hrs

We were called, along with other teams from the north west of England and southern Scotland, to assist the police in the aftermath of the tragic shootings in West Cumbria. We were tasked to search roadside verges and adjacent land in the area.

5 June 2010 from 14.50 hrs

Team Supporters were marshalling on the Kentmere Trail Race, with a Team vehicle in attendance (primarily for publicity purposes). The vehicle and driver (a Casualty Carer) were called upon to assist in a number of medical emergencies at the event during the afternoon including fall injuries, painful joints and exhaustion.

28 June 2010 15.20 hrs

The Team's Leader Group was paged by the police regarding a missing person. Enquiries established that the incident was to the east of Dent in the area covered by the Cave Rescue Organisation. The call was passed to them with the offer of help from the Kendal Team if required. We were requested to give assistance at 17.20 hrs and, sadly, a man's body was found by one of the search dogs shortly after the Team arrived.

1 July 2010 14.45 hrs

We were called to search for an elderly lady who was missing from her home in Ings. She was considered to be vulnerable. The Langdale & Ambleside and Duddon & Furness teams and SARDA (search dogs) were also involved in the search. She was found by a member of the Duddon & Furness team in bushes at the side of the Staveley Bypass shortly before 18.30 hrs. The lady seemed to be reasonably well, if a little cold, and was taken to hospital in a County Ambulance for a check up.

11 July 2010 15.30 hrs

The Team was paged by the police and asked to attend a male who was reported to have fallen near Cautley Spout and sustained a possible fractured arm. The man was assisted on the hill by several walkers and felt able to start making his own way down with them. He arrived at a waiting ambulance at the Cross Keys shortly after our first vehicle reached that location. One of his rescuers turned out to be the famous mountaineer Alan Hinkes (see photograph). Alan remains the only Briton to have climbed all 14 of the Himalayan peaks over 8,000 metres (including Everest and K2).

20 July 2010 19.05 hrs

On a very wet evening, we were called to assist the Langdale & Ambleside Team with a male who had injured his ankle near Angle Tarn. We helped to carry him down Rossett Gill and an L&A vehicle then took him to their base in Ambleside where he was transferred to a County Ambulance. Team members were all home by midnight.

24 July 2010 16.45 hrs

Our Leader Group was paged by the police in relation to a 31 year old man who had reported himself lost in the Baugh Fell area to the north of Garsdale in deteriorating weather conditions. This area forms the boundaries to 4 team areas (Kendal, CRO, Kirkby Stephen and Swaledale). Our Team Leader spoke to the lost man several times on his mobile phone in an attempt to establish roughly where he was. This resulted in only a vague idea and it was established that he had no map (he said it had been blown away), no compass, no waterproofs and no rucksack. Following liaison with the other teams it was agreed that Kirkby Stephen would deal with this incident. Just as this had been sorted out we were on another callout – see below.

24 July 2010 17.30 hrs

The Langdale & Ambleside team were already involved with a search for two missing persons on Crinkle Crags when they were called to another incident. This involved a male with a knee injury on the Mark Gate path above Raven Crag in Great Langdale and we were called to assist. The steep and very slippery path made for a difficult stretcher carry but the casualty was taken down to the car park at the New Dungeon Ghyll from where we transported him to hospital in Kendal. During our journey back to Kendal, we were put on standby at 20.35hrs to join the search for our friend on Baugh Fell - see above. Fortunately (as the weather was continuing to worsen), he was located in the vicinity of Hebblethwaite Hall shortly after and we were stood down at about 21.10hrs.

27 July 2010 15.50 hrs

We were asked to assist the Langdale & Ambleside team with the evacuation of a young boy who had sustained a knee injury in Browney Gill (Great Langdale). Even though an RAF rescue helicopter had been requested we took crag equipment and a stretcher up to a point overlooking the cas site (you can never be sure of a helicopter evacuation until the aircraft has arrived and picked up your casualty). L&A team members were already with the casualty. The helicopter did arrive and we again witnessed some excellent flying when the pilot hovered in the gill while winching the injured boy on board.

Langdale Mo Munching!

8 August 2010 15.05 hrs

The Team's Leader Group was paged by the police in connection with a report of a fallen male who had a possible dislocated shoulder. Further enquires established that the location was on Keswick Team's patch and so the job was passed to them.

9 August 2010 16.20 hrs

Another Langdale & Ambleside assist. The L&A Team were just finishing a job at Far Easedale when they were alerted to an incident on Helm Crag where a male had a lower leg injury. We joined with a few L&A team members to deal with this one. The casualty was carried further up the fell by stretcher to a flat area where he could be transferred to the Air Ambulance.

13 August 2010 12.40 hrs

The Langdale & Ambleside team requested our assistance with a male who had fallen about 50 feet down a very steep rocky slope in a small gill just to the west of Swine Knott in Great Langdale. We carried heavy kit up steep and bracken covered ground. The casualty had a shoulder injury and lacerations to his face. He was treated by a paramedic from the NW Ambulance Service and L&A team members, secured to a stretcher and winched up into a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer for onward transport to hospital.

21 August 2010 16.50 hrs

We were called to assist the Langdale & Ambleside team with a casualty on The Band (Great Langdale) as they were a little short on numbers. We were stood down as team members were assembling, however, when L&A established that the casualty was not very far up the hill and was hobbling down.

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