Wednesday 24th June 2020. A number of Team members took part in a mass ‘litter-picking’ exercise spread across wide areas of the North York Moors. Just as one of the training parties was finishing a 'litter sweep' of the Cod Beck area near Osmotherley they came across a Yorkshire Ambulance Service crew who were responding to a report of a man…
Thursday 18th June 2020. Our latest call-out came just a few hours after our volunteer search & rescue Team members had returned home after having been out 'on the hills' on Wednesday evening, training in socially distanced pairs. We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police shortly after midnight to assist with two teenage girls who were reportedly stuck on Roseberry Topping, having…
Wednesday 10th June 2020. Things have started to get very busy for the Team in recent weeks! We were contacted by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service at 2.26pm to assist with a 60-year old woman from Asenby, near Thirsk who had been injured after falling whilst walking with family members near to Gormire Lake (below Sutton Bank). Team members were deployed together with our two…
Monday 8th June 2020. We were contacted by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service at 4.37pm to assist with a 15-year old boy from Nunthorpe who had been injured when falling from his mountain bike in the area of Captain Cook's monument. Team members were deployed together with one of our Land Rover ambulances. Having sustained a serious injury to his elbow he was treated…
Saturday 6th June 2020. As a follow up to last night’s call-out (20/2020) we were contacted by North Yorshire Police at 12.25pm today with a request to search additional areas of land near Kettleness for the missing man. Police officers and a Maritime & Coastguard helicopter were again involved. Our search area included some potentially steep ground and large sections with dense…
Friday 5th June 2020. We were contacted by North Yorkshire Police just after 11pm to search for a man who was missing and possibly in the Kettleness area, north of Whitby. A number of our volunteer Team members were called out and a Team Land Rover was deployed. We then searched areas, tracks and tunnels around the Kettleness area, including stretches of…
Sunday 31st May 2020. We were contacted by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service shortly after 1.30am with a request to assist with the recovery of an injured man somewhere near Captain Cook’s monument. He had set off walking late on Saturday evening, but had fallen injuring his ankle. However he was unable to give a precise location. Initially a limited number of Team members…
Thursday 28th May 2020. After no rescue call-outs for over two months, we had our second in two-days! We were contacted at 1.43pm to assist the North East Ambulance Service in recovering a casualty from an area to the west of Brotton. A 79-year old local lady, out walking with her family, had stumbled and fallen injuring her lower back and…
Wednesday 27th May 2020. Just before 4.30pm we were alerted to a report of a 15-year old boy who had fallen in woodland above Guisborough. Team members were deployed to assist the North East Ambulance Service with evacuation. They treated the young man for a suspected fractured leg before the ambulance arrived and he was then taken to hospital. 14 members were…
Saturday 23rd May 2020. We were contacted by Cleveland Police just before 7pm to search for a woman who had gone missing from Marske; with concerns for her safety. A number of our volunteer Team members were called out and two Team Land Rovers were deployed. Operating under our strict COVID-19 procedures, they were allocated in small groups to search Errington Wood,…
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