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,…

Wednesday 15th April 2020. We were contacted by Cleveland Police at approximately 3am to assist in searching for a man who had gone missing in the Middlesbrough area. Technology was used remotely to help plan the search but obviously it was necessary to call people out from their homes whilst ensuring they could work safely. Volunteer Team members, operating under our COVID-19 procedures,…

Sunday 5th April 2020. We were contacted by Cleveland Police at midday to assist in a search for a man who had gone missing. Team members, operating under our COVID-19 procedures, were deployed to search the Eston Hills area. Working with Police air support, they were also joined by a search dog and handler from Swaledale MRT. Shortly after being stood-down for the evening…