Incidents
Rescue
Incident Type: Rescue
24/06/2008
Yew Crag
Grid reference: Not set
On Tuesday 24th June Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to assist the ambulance service to evacuate a fisherman who had fallen on the shore of Ullswater. The casualty had sustained a fractured femur.
On reaching the scene, the team placed the casualty on their stretcher. The team then lifted the stretcher up and over a high wall which separated the foreshore from the road above. A team vehicle was used to transport him to the waiting air ambulance for onward transfer to Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle.
On reaching the scene, the team placed the casualty on their stretcher. The team then lifted the stretcher up and over a high wall which separated the foreshore from the road above. A team vehicle was used to transport him to the waiting air ambulance for onward transfer to Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle.