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…

FRIDAY 15TH JANUARY 2021 The Yorkshire Ambulance Service contacted us at 1636 hours requesting assistance at Ainthorpe, where an ambulance crew were attending to a woman who had sustained a hip injury. We were asked to move the casualty from a house approximately 200 metres along an icy, uphill driveway to the ambulance which had to be left at the…

Tuesday 12th January 2021 We were contacted at 0031 hours by North Yorkshire Police requesting our assistance at Hob Hole approximately two-miles west of Castleton following a report of a vehicle partially submerged in flood waters at the ford. A number of Team members were deployed including ten of our Swift Water Rescue Technicians (SRTs) who are trained and equipped…

SUNDAY 10TH JANUARY 2021 We were contacted at 0153 hours by North Yorkshire Police requesting our assistance to go to the aid of two people in a car that was stuck in snow on a hilly section of road near to Castleton. Information from the police, subsequently confirmed by our members at the scene, was that the occupants were on…

TUESDAY 29TH DECEMBER 2020 A number of Team members were involved in a search in and around the Saltburn and Skelton areas during the afternoon and evening, at the request of Cleveland Police who were endeavouring to trace a man missing from Skelton.  Police officers involved in the search found the body of a man. Whilst they advise that no formal…