SATURDAY 20TH MARCH 2021 At 0539 hours we were contacted by Cleveland Police with a request to help in a search for a vulnerable missing person. Team members were called out from home and requested to report to an RV-point in the Middlesbrough area for deployment. Shortly after the first Team members arrived on scene, together with our two Land…

SUNDAY 7TH MARCH 2021 We were contacted by Cleveland Police during the afternoon with a request to assist them in searching for a man who was missing in their area. A number of Team members reported to our Base and after being briefed were allocated to search parties covering areas between Guisborough and Great Ayton. During the evening one of…

TUESDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2021 At around 1800 hours we were contacted about two women who had walked up towards the summit of Roseberry Topping but felt unsafe descending in the high winds that were prevalent throughout the day. Our Call-out Officer was able to contact the women by phone in order to reassure them and to confirm their location which…

TUESDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2021 The Yorkshire Ambulance Service contacted the Team at approximately 1700 hours with a request to assist an ambulance crew at a remote Westerdale location. They were unable to get the ambulance close to the property and needed our help to transport the patient to the ambulance approximately half a mile away. Upon arrival one of our…

FRIDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 Our colleagues at Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team were contacted in the morning with a request to provide assistance to a District Nurse whose vehicle was unable to get through snow whilst she was carrying out a home visit. The Scarborough Team used the Phone Find facility to establish that the nurse was stranded at…

THURSDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2021 Following on from the assistance provided on Wednesday evening (see call-out 7/2021) to a District Nurse to reach a patient in Loftus, we received a further request (from another nurse) in relation to the same patient at 0445 hours the following morning. Although the water level had dropped slightly it was still deemed impassable for the…

WEDNESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2021 We were contacted during the evening to provide assistance to a District Nurse needing to get through some localised flooding in Loftus in order to attend to a patient. Two Team members were deployed in one of our Land Rovers and transported the nurse to and from a property so that the patient could be treated.…

TUESDAY 26TH JANUARY 2021 Shortly after midday we were contacted by North Yorkshire Police to assist in the search for a man who was reported as missing from Northallerton; there were concerns for his safety. Team members were deployed initially to an RV-point at North Yorkshire Police Headquarters in the town. Our incident control vehicle was set up at the…

SATURDAY 23RD JANUARY 2021 Shortly after midday we were contacted by the North East Ambulance Service with a request to attend to a casualty who had fallen and sustained a head injury in Guisborough Woods at the top of Butt Lane. The Guisborough lady was walking with her husband and family when she fell resulting in the injury. We quickly…

MONDAY 18TH JANUARY 2021 Our fourth call-out of the year was the second vehicle / flooding related incident for the Team within the space of one-week  We were contacted during the afternoon by North Yorkshire Police to provide safety cover while a car which had been washed off the ford near Glaisdale was secured. The Environment Agency were concerned that…