The warm sunny weather this weekend brought a busy time for the team with 3 incidents to assist Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
Call out number 1 on Saturday lunch time was to a rider who had fallen off their mountain bike in Greno woods falling approximately 5M on the Lower Gap Jump.
On team RRMTs worked with the paramedics from YAS to stabilise their injuries and provide pain relief before immobilisation in our vacuum mattress and carrying them to the waiting ambulance at the roadhead on our rescue stretcher.
Thank you to the fellow mountain bikers who helped close the track and carry some of our kit back to the Landrover, and to YAS Paramedic who helped carry the stretcher.
Sunday saw us called back to almost the same spot on the Steel City Run at Grenoside.
Another mountain biker had come off their bike, the team arrived ahead of the paramedics and worked to stabilise the injuries before they were placed into the vac mat and stretchered down to meet the YAS crew who met us on the carry off.
After restocking the Landrover and before the engine had even cooled the second call of the day arrived at 15.46. A walker in Seckar Woods near Wakefield had slipped and broken their leg’. Fortunately, the accident happened close to the road and after being stabilised by YAS they were loaded onto our stretcher and carried to the waiting ambulance.
We wish all the casualties a speedy recovery.
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