Callouts 2012

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01 January 2012  13.40 hrs

The team called following reports of a female trapped in water following a canoeing accident near Sedbergh We were stood down just as we were leaving base when were informed that the incident had been dealt with by Cumbria Fire Service and NW Ambulance Service. Heli-Med was also in attendance. As we were closing base down we had a request from the scene to assist in recovery of some canoes. 5 team members were deployed with swift water gear but were not needed on arrival at the scene as the canoes had been retrieved by the owners. We understand that the canoeist was flown to hospitals and was in a serious condition.

05 January 2012  05.00 hrs

Our second early start within 9 days! This time we joined other teams and a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter to assist the Patterdale team with a search for a male who was missing after apparently setting off to walk the "Dodds" to the west of Ullswater. Patterdale had been out in the early hours but they had to retreat due to the extreme weather conditions. There was a lot of water about following prolonged wet weather and it was an extremely windy day searching on the hills (gusts of up to 80mph were recorded in the search area). The search was ended at around 15.30 hrs, unfortunately without success.

15 January 2012 15.50 hrs

We were called to assist the NW Ambulance Service with a 73 year old female casualty on steep ground below Craggy Wood, Staveley. She had slipped on frozen turf and sustained a lower leg injury. We stretchered her down to the waiting ambulance. Great weather in the hills at the moment but it's very slippery in places.

01 February 2012 12.55 hrs

The Police asked us to assist the NW Ambulance Service with a male who had slipped on steep and muddy ground at Kendal Castle. He had incurred an injury to his knee and we stretcherd him down to the Ambulance.

03 February 2012 14.35 hrs

The Langdale & Ambleside team asked for our assistance on Crinkle Crags where a woman had sustained a lower leg injury at the "Bad Step". We were on our way up the hill when L&A team members managed to get the casualty below the cloud base and the North West Air Ambulance was able to get in to pick her up.

04 February 2012 18.30 hrs

A few team members stood by at base to be on hand to assist police & ambulance during severe weather conditions, Base closed at 21:45hrs.

04 February 2012 22.30 hrs

Our Leader Group was paged by the Police. North West Ambulance had requested assistance to transfer an elderly gentleman to hospital. On arriving at the ambulance station to pick up a paramedic the team were stood down from this incident.

05 February 2012 09.00 hrs

We attended two weather related incidents. The first involved transporting two care workers to a remote address near Gatebeck. Our second job was taking a dialysis patient back home to Dent - he had spent Saturday night stuck in hospital due to the weather.

 


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