Injured walked rescued from Northumberland moors and taken to hospital
An injured walker was taken to hospital following a multi-agency rescue in Northumberland.
On Saturday, January 31, Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team (NNPMRT), with the help of North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team, were called out to assist an organised group on the moors between Lorbottle Hall and Callaly.
One member of the group had fallen, sustaining a lower leg injury and was unable to weight bear.
The North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust was contacted, and as a community paramedic arrived at the roadside rendezvous point, mountain rescue support was requested due to the location and terrain.
Volunteer members deployed from multiple directions to ensure a swift and coordinated response. Once on scene, mountain rescue team members worked alongside the community paramedic to provide additional pain relief and stabilise the leg injury.
With daylight fading and temperatures dropping, the casualty was carefully packaged in a winter casualty bag and secured onto a Titan stretcher. A stretcher party then carried out a controlled evacuation down a wet and slippery hillside, followed by a very muddy track.
At the roadside, the casualty was then safely handed over to a double-crewed ambulance for onward transport to hospital.
NNPMRT commented that “they wish the casualty well for a swift and full recovery”.
A North East Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called to an incident in Whittingham, Alnwick on Saturday 31 January at 15:50. We dispatched two ambulance crews and one patient was taken to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care hospital (NSEC)."