SUNDAY 5TH JUNE 2022  North Yorkshire Police contacted us on Sunday evening to help search the Carlton Bank area for a missing person.  Having established a control point near Lordstones our volunteer Team members were split into four teams and allocated various search areas as agreed with the police. Weather conditions were poor due to a mixture of limited visibility…

THURSDAY 2ND JUNE 2022  Cleveland Police contacted us to help in the search for a missing man in the Hartlepool area. Team members and vehicles were deployed to cover a search area identified by the police. We also requested support from ‘Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England’ - so two handlers and their dogs from Swaledale MRT later assisted in the…

MONDAY 30TH MAY 2022 (1210 HOURS) Just after midday, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) requested that we attend to a female walker who had fallen near to Roseberry Topping sustaining a painful injury to her lower right-leg. Two double-crewed Land Rovers were deployed with one heading to an RV-point at Aireyholme Farm near Great Ayton. The other continued via the…

TUESDAY 24TH MAY 2022 (2107 HOURS) We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police who reported that two walkers taking part in the Coast to Coast walk had telephoned the Buck Inn, Chop Gate (their intended overnight destination) to report that they were lost between Wain Stones and Chop Gate. Since then telephone contact had proved difficult. One of our Land…

SUNDAY 8TH MAY 2022 (1136 HOURS) We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police who reported that a runner taking part in an event had sustained a potentially serious leg injury whilst near to Wain Stones, south of Great Broughton. Two Team Land Rovers containing a total of six people were dispatched from the Team’s Base, one going to an RV-point…

Shortly after standing down from call-out 16/2022 we received another call for assistance: SUNDAY 1st MAY 2022 (1420 HOURS) We were again contacted by North Yorkshire Police, this time reporting that a young woman in a walking party had been taken ill and was unable to continue. This was on the Cleveland Way on Cold Moor between Lordstones and Wain…

SUNDAY 1st MAY 2022 (1145 HOURS) It turned out to a very busy weekend for the Team. Following call-outs on both Friday and Saturday and also covering the the English Championship Fell Race on Saturday, we were hoping for a quiet Sunday for our annual Whalebones Walk (from Whitby to Marske). However, we ended up dealing with two more call-outs…

SATURDAY 30TH APRIL 2022 (1748 HOURS) Not long after Team members had returned home from providing support at an event in the afternoon, we were contacted by the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) requesting our assistance in Errington Woods following a report of a mountain biker with a shoulder injury. A Cleveland MRT Land Rover containing three Team members was…

FRIDAY 29TH APRIL 2022 (1152 HOURS) We were contacted at midday by the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) requesting our assistance near to Loftus. One of their crews was en route to a report of a woman who had sustained a knee injury after falling whilst walking in Loftus Wood, approximately 1-Km south of the town. A Cleveland MRT Land…

SUNDAY 24TH APRIL 2022 (2130 HOURS) We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police with a request to assist them in a search for a missing person. One of our Team members was sent to liaise with the Police at an RV-point and others, who had been allocated as drivers, were sent to our Base to collect the vehicles. The remainder…