- Incident
- 104 in 2017
- Type
- Full Callout — Injured & Medical
- Location
- Brown Tongue, Scafell Pike
- Other Agencies
- North West Ambulance Service
- Diagnosis
- Ankle Injury, Leg Injury
Not long after the previous job was passed to Keswick, the team leader took a call for a walker who had slipped while descending the Brown Tongue path and sustained a broken ankle. Once on scene the team Doctor administered pain relief, the casualty was packaged up and stretchered down to Brackenclose and passed to NWAS.
Incident started at 17:49 and ended at 21:32 making 3.7 hrs in total. There were 14 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY1984607379 (altitude 425 m). Total rescuer hours: 52
