Local Incident

The team was attending the Grasmere Gallop as a fundraising event, when they were requested to help a passerby who had fallen from the pavement and sustained a suspect fractured elbow. She was treated and recommended to seek further hospital treatment

After some late night revelry an 18 year old Student from a local training centre fell 30ft from the roof of the Bridge House and sustained spinal and internal injuries. Horizontally raised out of the beck on a stretcher to an awaiting ambulance.

Cumbria Police requested the team to search for a 28 year old man from Bury who was suffering from severe depression. Located near lake shore, escorted to safety.

We were requested to assist in the search for a missing 11-year-old autistic child. Fortunatlely he turned up as the team was responding, so we were able to stand down.

We were requested to transport a care worker to some of her vulnerable patients as yet more snow fell

The South African occupants of a car were recovered after they slid their car off the road while descending "The Struggle". This is a steep ice bound road and was a poor choice to make. Luckily nobody was injured.

We were requested to take paramedics to assist a woman who had sustained a injury when she slipped on an icy path near Elterwater.

The team was requested by police to recover a vehicle and its occupants from The Struggle, near the top of Kirkstone Pass.

We were requested to assist an ambulance crew with the evacuation of a 21-year-old woman who had sustained spinal injury

Shouts for help and flashing lights were reported from fields above Ambleside by a local resident.

A search was mounted when a 44 year old Windermere woman failed to return home 5/27
84. Team and S.A.R.D.A. searched surrounding woodland. Her body was subsequently
found in the lake by police divers at 1.30pm 7/2/84.

Whilst being taken to hospital with a broken leg, a man aged 40 from the Kirkstone Pass Inn was trapped for 5 hours in his snow-bound Land Rover. The team's Land Rover, with special studded snow tyres and a "digging crew" recovered passenger and vehicle and returned both to Kirkstone Top.
Weather conditions: gale force winds, deep snow drifts, Pass road blocked.
 

After a two hour search around Waterhead and Brathay Woods, the culprit was found. He claims flare had "gone off" accidently. Incident occurred again on the 17th July, 1982.

Cumbria Police required our assistance when a 72 year old man from Grange-over-Sands who had been missing several months, was found by a local farmer. The Team conveyed his body off the Fell.

A young female from Burnley sustained a fracture of her right ankle and had to be evacuated to Roadside by Rescue stretcher to a waiting ambulance. Smooth-soled sandals were worn.

A search was mounted with assistance from S.A.R.D.A for a 58 year old local man who disappeared during torrential rain and severe flood conditions. Body eventually found 15/3/81.

The Team was called to assist the Police to recover the body of a 65 year old woman from Ambleside which was found in the beck bottom. The body was conveyed down the stream by stretcher, then raised out.

A search was mounted for a 24 year old man from the Kirkstone Pass Inn, Ambleside after he failed to report for work at 12 noon. The man was found dead behind the Inn at 8-30 a.m. on 13th October.
Footnote: 8 Mountain Rescue Teams, Search Dogs and an R.A.F. Helicopter from Boulmer took part in this search. Local Mines were searched by Mine Rescue Unit.
Weather Conditions: Cold, Clear, Wet Underfoot.

A 16 year old youth from London slipped and fell 60 ft. down the fellside above Limefitt Caravan Park, Troutbeck, Windermere. He sustained head injuries. The team carried him down the fell on a stretcher and then by ambulance to Lancaster Hospital.
Footnote: The youth had smooth soled baseball shoes on, and the steep fellside was like glass hence the accident.

A small search was initiated for a 76-year-old woman missing from a local holiday
 resort. Four SARDA search dogs and 4 team members were mobilised but the woman was found by police before dogs were deployed. A happy ending.
 

We were requested to assist Police with a search for a 19-year-old man missing from a local residential school. The area was searched, with help from SARDA, and the man was located. He was unharmed.
 

We were requested to assist the Police with a search of fields and footpaths for an 80-year-old woman who had set off to walk a short distance and not arrived at her destination. She was located quickly and returned home. Coniston MRT and SARDA were also involved.

We were called to assist a young man who had spent the night out, having left home after a domenstic argument.

We were called to help evacuate a man who was found collapsed in the woods. He was stabilised by a Paramedic, and transferred to the air ambulance, and flown to Furness General Hospital.
 

A man was reported missing from a residential care home in Ambleside.

A man had been missing from his home since the previous evening. A search was being organised when further enquiries located him in a town some considerable distance away. It would appear to have been a domestic dispute.

A major operation swung into action when a coach crashed through a wall at the bottom of Kirkstone Pass, tipping onto its side. There were in excess of 40 people on board, many of whom were injured, some seriously. The rescue operation involved Police, Ambulance, Fire Service, Air Ambulance, ourselves and Kendal MRT. Our Lowfold base was used as a casualty clearing station were the less seriously injured were assessed by Paramedics, before being sent to appropriate hospitals. Our vehicles were used for transport.
 

We were requested by the Police to go and recover two people who had got their car stuck on Wrynose Pass in icy conditions. They claimed not to have seen the 'Road Closed' signs and became stuck on ice near the top. The recovery was hampered by a number of other cars abandoned and blocking the road.