Saturday 16th May (1235hrs)
Team members on stage 4 at Boltby Bash were informed of an injured mountain bike rider who was unable to move following a fall. The personnel at stage 4 deployed to the casualty site near the top of the stage with appropriate medical kit.
Following a medical assessment, the person had a shoulder injury and required strong analgesics to relieve the pain.
Due to the location , the person was evacuated on the mountain rescue stretcher down a steep slope using a back up rope to a nearby track . On the track the stretcher wheel was attached, allowing the stretcher to be wheeled down to the local farm yard.
Due to no estimated time of arrival for the road ambulance, a Land Rover was stripped out to allow the stretcher to be loaded into the vehicle and transferred to the medical tent on the event field. Not long after the casualty was in the medical tent the ambulance arrived.
We hope the casualty makes a speedy recovery and is back on the bike again. Thanks to his colleagues for their assistance in transferring the stretcher down to the track.
The team were involved for approx 3 hours
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Last week was a busy period for the team with 5 call outs in 5 days along with 2 full days of supporting the Boltby Bash MTB event. Either side of this period, the team had training on the Wednesday evenings. On the first Wednesday, the session was an exercise on steep ground in Newton Wood. A casualty was rescued from a location where extraction was only possible upwards on non technical steep ground using a 2 line bell stretcher raise withtwo rescuers.
The following Wednesday was an exercise at Scaling Dam involving both water and land based parties. The scenario was to find 6 paddle boarders who were missing.One person was located and rescued from the water with others at various locations on land around the lake.
Both sessions allowed the team to practice situations which are not commonly encountered in our search and rescue call outs but we are prepared for them.
Well done all, your service to the community is very admirable 🙏
Best part of 15 years since the Teams water asset first trained on Scaling Reservoir, and similarly Gormire Lake. Thankfully these aren't call out hotspots. Bodies of water are unforgiving
Thank you so very much 👍🌟🌟🌟
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