SUNDAY 3RD APRIL 2022 (1432 HOURS) After a relatively quiet few weeks we received a call during the afternoon from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service who reported that a motorcyclist had suffered a serious leg injury on Danby Rigg, south of Danby. A Yorkshire Air Ambulance helicopter was also en route. A double-crewed Team Land Rover was sent from our Base…

SUNDAY 6TH MARCH 2022 (1214 HOURS) A busy weekend for the Team - following the searches of Friday night and Saturday, we were called out at lunchtime today by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) with a report of a walker near to Osmotherley who had sustained an ankle injury. Two double-crewed Land Rovers were sent whilst other Team members made…

SATURDAY 5TH MARCH 2022 Following on from Friday night’s search for a man missing from his home in Thornton-Le-Street, near Thirsk, we were re-contacted by North Yorkshire Police this morning and asked to search additional areas. As before we deployed two Land Rovers and our Incident Control Vehicle to an RV-point at Metcalfe’s Vehicle Recovery Garage in the village (many…

FRIDAY 4TH MARCH 2022 We were contacted during Friday evening by North Yorkshire Police with a request to assist them in a search for a 75-year-old man who was missing from his home in Thornton-Le-Street, near Thirsk. The Team’s call-out procedures were put into action and we deployed three double-crewed vehicles - consisting of two Land Rovers plus our Incident…

MONDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2022 (1002 HOURS) A busy couple of days for the Team, following on from yesterday’s call-out, this morning the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) asked for our assistance as their crews were attending to a report of a male walker who had fallen and injured an ankle near to Lordstones Country Park. As we already had two Team…

SUNDAY 27TH FEBRUARY 2022 (1711 HOURS) The North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) asked us to assist one of their crews attending to a report of a male who had fallen from a motorcycle and injured his ankle at the top of Eston Nab. Shortly after our first Land Rover crew had met up with the NEAS crew, more of our…

SUNDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2022 (1233 HOURS) After a few quiet weeks we received out first call-out of the month when the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) asked us to assist one of their crews dealing with an injured walker on a coastal path near Marske. Once the first of our Land Rovers arrived, Team members walked a few hundred metres…

SUNDAY 30TH JANUARY 2022 (1747 HOURS) A few hours after finishing the second day of weekend practice most members were relaxing at home, tidying up their kit bags and drying out their water rescue equipment, when we received a call from the North East Ambulance Service requesting our assistance. A NEAS ambulance was en route to a report of a…

SATURDAY 15TH JANUARY 2022 (1704 HOURS) Our first call-out of 2022 could prove to be one of the shortest of the year. We were contacted by the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust to assist at the scene of a road accident on the A173 between Great Ayton and Guisborough, where a car had reportedly left the road down…

THURSDAY 30TH DECEMBER 2021 (1652 HOURS) A flurry of call-outs to end 2021, included this brief one when we were requested by Cleveland Police to assist a group of walkers who had become disorientated in the darkness whilst walking on Eston Hills. Through a combination of the What3Words app and the mountain rescue Phone Find facility their probable location was…