The team were given special permission to transport a casualty to Hospital due to pressure on the ambulance service.
Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue team dealt with two unrelated jobs in same location yesterday afternoon.
Just after 12:30 the team were called by North Yorkshire Police to reports of a female with a lower leg injury on the steep 'path' running to the bottom of the Falling Foss Waterfall.
After treating the lady at the scene of the accident they loaded her onto a team stretcher and hauled it with a rope system some 40 metre back up the steep ground from the find site to the hermitage path before carrying her to the car park on the stretcher.
Due to pressure on the ambulance service the team were then given special permission to transport the lady to hospital :
"Ambulance control were unable to give us an arrival time for a dual crewed ambulance due to exceptional call numbers and while we would not normally use one of our vehicles to transport a patient to hospital we requested dispensation this time to drive her to Scarborough Hospital A and E in our Mercedes Sprinter Ambulance.
The transfer was further complicated as we had administered strong opiate pain relief to her and the need to observe Covid protection measures in the confines of the vehicle. "
As two of the team vehicles were leaving the scene the team were alerted by a member of the public to an unrelated incident close to their location
"We redeployed three team members to scene to find a 74 year old female who had fallen and sustained a significant wound on the inside of her upper lip and a scuffed knee. After washing her facial wound and stemming the bleeding we gave her pain relief before walking her back to the car park. She was then driven home by her family with advice to attend A and E or a minor injuries department to have the wound checked. We had fourteen team members deployed for a total of five hours on the two incidents with considerable kit cleaning and repacking needed"
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