Four teams called out in fell rescues
Last updated 13:48, Monday, 06 October 2008
VOLUNTEERS from four mountain rescue teams were called out to help walkers on the Lakeland fells yesterday.
A 50-year-old Lancashire woman was airlifted to hospital after falling while walking near Buttermere.
More than 20 members of Cockermouth and Keswick’s mountain rescue teams helped locate the woman, who had fallen while walking near to Sail Beck.
They helped stretcher the woman, who had fractured her arm, to a landing site and she was flown to the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven by the Great North Air Ambulance Service.
Meanwhile, members of the Patterdale team rescued a woman near the summit of Place Fell.
The team, supported by police and ambulance, helped the 39-year-old from Wetherby who had slipped and injured her ankle.
Thirteen mountain rescuers climbed Place Fell from the Ullswater valley.
The casualty, suffering a suspected fractured ankle, was placed in a stretcher and evacuated down into the Boredale valley.
Six members of Penrith’s team met up with the stretcher party to help the evacuation.
The rescue took four-and-a-half hours.
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