Tuesday 19th May (1750 hrs)
Cleveland Police contacted the team to provide assistance to bring an elderly person down from Eston Hill ,who was unable to walk. A fully manned Land Rover and other team members in their own vehicles headed to the access point to the Hill at Occupation Road, Eston.The first members at RV proceeded on foot to the casualty site , with information from the Police on scene that the condition of the person was deteriorating. When the Land Rover arrived, it proceeded up the track to the vicinity of the casualty site.The required medical kit was deployed to the site. As the casualty was being assessed and loaded onto the stretcher, the rear of the Land Rover was stripped out in preparation for the stretcher to be loaded. Once the casualty was in the vehicle, it travelled down the track to the waiting ambulance
We wish the casualty well
16 team members were involved for 2.5 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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