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Incident No: 32 2017

Date: 23 July 2017
Time: 17.26hrs
Location: Yearning Saddle Refuge

A female walker sustained an upper leg injury late yesterday afternoon and was unable to weight bare. The female, her partner and their two dogs took refuge in the shelter at Yearning Saddle just below Lamb Hill and called the Police and requested Mountain Rescue’s assistance. By this stage the weather conditions on the hill had deteriorated with heavy rain and low visibility.

North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves responded immediately, with local members heading straight up the Upper Coquet Valley to Blindburn to liaise with Northumbria Police officers. Two Rescue Team vehicles were also deployed. Borders Search & Rescue Unit were alerted in case additional assistance was required.

Once again the shepherd from Blindburn assisted us by skilfully driving up onto the Border Ridge in his 4×4. Conditions were worse than two weeks ago when he last made the same trip but nevertheless we made it!

Our Team Leader and a Paramedic from the North East Ambulance Service were soon at the refuge shelter where the female was assessed and given pain relief before being assisted into the 4×4. Half an hour later we were safely back down at Blindburn and the female casualty was handed over to a NEAS crewed ambulance.

Thanks again to the shepherd from Blindburn who made our job a lot easier yesterday evening. A long carryover beckoned…!

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The incident involved for 16 Team members for 4 hours.

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Incident No: 31 2017

Date: 20 July 2017
Time: 10.53hrs
Location: Peterlee

Our search dog, Tess, and her handler were deployed yesterday to assist Teesdale & Weardale Search & Mountain Rescue Team in a search for a 65 year old female in the Peterlee area. After an extensive day long search, TWSMRT and the search dogs from across the North East were stood down.

The missing female was last seen on Wednesday and the Police remain concerned for her wellbeing.

The incident involved 1 Team member for 8 hours.

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Incident No: 29 and 30 2017

Date: 19 July 2017
Time: 20.31hrs
Location: Newcastle and Durham

Northumbria Police requested our support with a missing person who lived in the Newcastle area and had been last seen in North Shields. SARLOC was used again to try to identify the missing person’s location. No response to SMS was received and no further action was taken by the Team or North of Tyne MRT.

During the above incident, our Duty Controller also received a request from the North East Ambulance Service to assist in locating a casualty on an embankment in the Durham area. Not strictly our area but to provide a timely response a SARLOC SMS was sent by our Duty Controller. The casualty was eventually located by NEAS.

Earlier in the evening our Duty Controller had also been alerted to an incident on the Scottish side of the Cheviots by Border Search & Rescue Unit. At this stage it was for situational awareness and BSARU along with the Scottish Ambulance Service were able to deal with the injured farmer.

A busy evening but thankfully we didn’t need to leave our homes!

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The incidents involved 1 Team member for 1 hour 11 minutes.

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