Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain rescue team say they are having their busiest year since they were formed in 1965.
Two call out's yesterday take their total for the year to 80 incidents.
Yesterday the volunteer team were called by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist a crew with the evacuation of a casualty with an ankle injury along a narrow canal path south of Driffield. After treatment by the crew they carried the patient to the waiting ambulance for transportation to definitive medical care.
Later in the day they were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to reports of a seventy year old male who had fallen on steep ground in Low North Camp, near Harwood Dale, and sustained a head injury. The team were stood down while travelling to scene after receiving report from the ambulance service that the gentleman been extracted to the waiting ambulance by the crew on scene.
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