The volunteer rescue team were called out to two incidents this weekend.
On Saturday the team were called to attend two walkers reporting themselves lost in woodland in the Esk Valley. In addition to being lost one of the party had suffered a reoccurrence of a pre-existing medical condition and felt unable to continue walking.
The team report...
"Despite poor mobile coverage we managed to confirm their location through the Mountain Rescue England and Wales PhoneFind app and then through text messages, establish their condition and reassure them help was on the way. Our first team member on scene treated the patient to stabilise her condition and after a while was able to walk the pair slowly to a footpath and out to a waiting Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust ambulance.
Meanwhile two team vehicles and additional team members were on route should a protracted search be needed, advanced medical intervention be needed or if the patient required extraction by stretcher.
We had eleven team members deployed for around two hours."
It was a return to the area for the rescue team who earlier in the day had been undertaking a ropes training session just up the valley at Thomason Foss / Beck Hole.
On Sunday the team were called by North Yorkshire Police to reports of a couple out walking in the area of Harland Moor when the lady in the party had fallen and sustained a knee injury.
The rescue volunteers contacted the couple, established their location and deployed two vehicles and team members to the scene. After treatment on site for the leg injury and the effects of cold the patient was carried across the moor to one of the Mountain Rescue team's 4x4 ambulances for transport to the road, handover to a Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust ambulance and to be taken to definitive medical care.
The team were deployed for three hours.
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