The team was called out to assist The Ambulance Service recover a casualty with a lower leg injury from the fell near Boot. As the team was mobilising a second call came in for another incident on the a summit of Scafell Pike. Duddon and Furness dealt with the Boot incident allowing us to divert to the Scafell Pike incident.
Incident started at 20:43.
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