SATURDAY 24TH DECEMBER 2022 (1450 hours) After an unusually quiet couple of months things changed dramatically for Cleveland MRT on Christmas Eve, when we received a request from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to deploy in support of Yorkshire Air Ambulance. One of their helicopters was en route to a report a person who had sustained injuries after having fallen from…

Wednesday 7th December 2022 We were contacted by Cleveland Police who requested us, very sadly, to recover a body from woodland. Two members went to our Base to prepare a vehicle whilst our call-out officer liaised with the rest of the Team to arrange sufficient numbers to deploy. However, a short time later we were stood-down by the Police as…

WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2022 Cleveland MRT members were deployed at the request of Cleveland Police to search an area of land at Thornaby for a missing person. Thankfully, the person was found by Police officers in an adjacent search area not too long after we had commenced our searches and we were then able to stand-down. Sixteen members plus two…

MONDAY 31st OCTOBER 2022 (1055 HOURS) We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police after a walker reported seeing a climber, potentially in difficulties and unable to move on the south-west crag face of Roseberry Topping.  After speaking to the caller our call-out officer deployed three Team members using one of our Land Rovers in order to make an initial assessment.…

SATURDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2022 (1338 HOURS) We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police regarding a walker who had fallen and sustained a lower leg injury on a track between Captain Cook’s Monument and Great Ayton. A Team Land Rover containing three members was sent from our Base whilst other members separately made their way to the RV-point at Gribdale Gate…

SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 2022 (1234 HOURS) We were contacted by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service regarding a walker who had been taken ill near to Captain Cook’s Monument, east of Great Ayton. Two Team Land Rovers were sent from our Base with other members separately making their way to a nearby RV-point at Gribdale Gate carpark. Meanwhile our call-out officer was…

FRIDAY 7th OCTOBER 2022 (1303 HOURS) We were contacted by Cleveland Police regarding two walkers who had become disorientated near to Roseberry Topping during one of the heavy rain showers that occurred across the area during the middle of the day. Our call-out officer was quickly able to contact them by phone and identified their location via the mountain rescue…

FRIDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022 (1605 HOURS) The start of a busy weekend for the Team with a call-out ahead of our annual 4-Tops Walk on Saturday and a full Team practice day on Sunday. We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police regarding two walkers who had reported themselves to be lost in woodland, somewhere in the Clay Bank / Great…

THURSDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2022 We were contacted in the morning by our colleagues at Scarborough & Ryedale MRT with a request to assist them in a search for a vulnerable missing man in the Sleights area. They had been deployed the previous evening at the request of North Yorkshire Police and asked for our support when the search resumed in…

SUNDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2022 The Team provided assistance to the Yorkshire Ambulance Service during the evening with a short stretcher-carry in the Great Ayton area, for a gentleman who had fallen and was unable to stand having sustained an injury. Six Team members plus our call-out officer were involved for approximately 1.5 hours.