Ankle Injury at Fusedale

The Team was simultaneously tasked by both the NWAS and Cumbria Police to attend a 58 year old woman from Yorkshire who had slipped whilst walking with her husband in Fusedale. Unable to obtain a mobile signal, the gentleman had descended to the farm at the head of the valley to call the police; meanwhile another party had come across the casualty and managed to contact the Ambulance Service.

A Team Doctor assessed the woman’s ankle, and administered pain relief before applying a splint. The woman was stretchered from the fell to a waiting Team Land Rover and transported to Pooley Bridge where she was handed over to an NWAS crew.