Callout 18 in 2009
The police paged the team to assist in the recover of a female body from an off road location near Wath Brow. 16 team members attended and recovered the lady’s body to the road head. The incident was closed at around 4.00 p.m.
Other Location – Sun 18th Jan 2009
Cumbria police received a ‘999’ call from a lady on a mobile phone requesting help but before the message or her details could be taken the line went dead. The ‘999’ signal had been picked up by the mobile phone mast near Holmrook / Gosforth so the Wasdale team were Read more…
Alert in 2009
The team was paged by Cumbria Police to rescue a couple who were stranded on the road pass between Eskdale and Langdale. The Team Leader spoke to the couple on their mobile. They had been stranded in their car overnight with snow and ice on the road. Similar situations have Read more…
Callout 01 in 2009
The team was paged by Cumbria police to assist in an urban search in the area of Braystones. The missing female was located before the team were fully deployed at the scene of the incident. The lady had not survived. The team were stood down at 8:20 hrs
Callout 36 in 2008
Team were paged by the police to attend to a ‘3 Peaks Challenge’ walker with an injured knee. When details were confirmed, the incident was located at the top of Ruddy Gill which is outside Wasdale’s area, but the Keswick team’s pager system was down. Wasdale responded with 12 team Read more…
Alert in 2008
Two Wasdale team members were climbing on the snow slopes between Striding Edge and Swirral Edge on Helvellyn when they saw what they believed to be a climber falling down one of the eastern gulleys of Helvellyn. They were first on scene, administered casualty care to the unconscious male who Read more…
Alert in 2007
Following a serious 4 vehicle road traffic accident on the A595 at Calderbridge, the team leader and team doctor (at the rescue base at the time of the accident) attended with advance vehicle and casualty care equipment. The road was closed for 6 hours. One of the drivers in the Read more…
Callout 58 in 2007
The team were paged by the police to respond to a female who was crag fast in a quarry near Bigrigg, Egremont. Clints Quarry is an overgrown disused quarry with steep sides. The lady had been walking round the quarry when she fell down the bank but her fall was Read more…
Other Location – Thu 14th Dec 2006
Three male walkers were benighted on the Scafell range in severe weather conditions and although they had telephoned their wives to let them know that they were happy to bivvy out until the morning, due to the medical history on one of the walkers, the Langdale and Ambleside Team were Read more…
Other Location – Thu 23rd Nov 2006
Call from Keswick MRT to assist in the search for a missing 69 year old male walker who had set off from Hawes End to walk Catbells the previous day with his dog and failed to turn up at home. The man was on holiday with his wife. Keswick MRT Read more…
Other Location – Sat 14th Oct 2006
Team were paged by the police following a ‘999’ call via a mobile phone. A 60 yr old man and wife from Stoke had been walking round Ennerdale Lake when darkness fell and they were lost with no torch. They were somewhere on the west side of the lake. The Read more…
Other Location – Thu 13th Jul 2006
Police contacted the Deputy Team leader to respond to an incident where an elderly man was at the top of a tall tree near the town of Egremont. The police and fire service were in attendance. Having tried their best to talk the gentleman down and failed, and the fire Read more…
Other Location – Fri 21st Apr 2006
The Wasdale and Keswick teams were called out by the Langdale Ambleside team to provide additional search groups for two missing boys aged 14 and 16 years. They had been last seen at 2.30 p.m. when they left their parents to search for a missing dog. The Wasdale Team were Read more…
Other Location – Mon 13th Mar 2006
The team leader was called by the police to investigate and possibly rescue the occupants of five snow bound cars on the Cold Fell road which runs between Calderbridge and Ennerdale Bridge. Although the police and local radio had put out weather warnings of more snow that afternoon, a number Read more…
Other Location – Sun 12th Mar 2006
The team leader was called by the police to rescue the occupants of five stranded vehicles on the A595 road between Waberthwaite and Bootle. A snow plough was also blocked in with a digger working its way towards the stranded cars from the south. The team had already put themselves Read more…
Other Location – Sat 25th Dec 2004
Call from the Police for the team to assists the ambulance service. A female sledger in her early thirties had fallen off the sledge on Cold Fell and sustained a serious lower leg break. The ambulance had been called but the crew were unable to get to the lady. A Read more…
Other Location – Wed 3rd Mar 2004
The team were called to support the Whitehaven Police who were urgently looking for a young 18 yr old girl with a medical problem who had collapsed somewhere in the town. Her location was unkown but the Police were in contact with her by mobile phone. By the time the Read more…
2003 Rescue 39
Call from the police to respond to a call for help from the RSPCA and a dog owner whose Lurcher ‘puppy’ had wandered over the edge of the old brickworks clay quarry at Greenbank, Whitehaven. The dog which was an adult si e rather than puppy, was trapped and frightened Read more…
2003 Rescue 35
Pager request from the Workington Police to support an ambulance crew who were called to attend to an injured person 300 metres from the roadside. Although close to the road they were unable to carry him to the road. He had sustained a serious injury to his back whilst swimming Read more…