Yorkshire Dales Rescue teams

Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity

Halifax - Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance is an charity based in Yorkshire and launched in 2000, it provides an air ambulance service across the Yorkshire and the Humber region. Based at Leeds Bradford Airport It operates a lifesaving rapid response helicopter service across Yorkshire. and ensures seriously injured persons are never more than an average 10 minutes away from hospital. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance aims to attend critical cases within the 'Platinum Ten Minutes', it can access areas which are difficult or impossible for road ambulances to reach quickly, i.e. coastal, rural or mountainous areas.

http://www.yorkshireairambulance.org.uk/

Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team

Kirkby Stephen - Cumbria

The Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team provides a search and rescue service for a large area, which includes the Howgill Fells, the North Western Yorkshire Dales, part of the North Pennines and the Orton Fells. Team members turn out in all weather conditions and will stay out for as long as help is required. The team originally evolved in the 1960s from a group of walkers, the Bogtrotters, to provide search and rescue facilities for the area around the Upper Eden and Lune Valleys of East Cumbria. In the beginning the equipment consisted of a rucksack containing a bottle of whisky and bandages! Times have changed.

http://www.kirkbystephenmrt.org.uk

Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team

Richmond - Swaledale

The Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team was formed in 1968 by 12 local people and has developed to the professional volunteer service of today that comprises around 30 members capable of reacting at short notice and so providing an invaluable asset to the local community. It provides mountain and cave rescue services within the Swaledale and Wensleydale areas of North Yorkshire. The team is made up of a group of highly trained volunteers who are available to be called out for a variety of land based search and rescue operations, any time day or night. SMRT provide a 24 hours per day, 365 days per year service.

http://www.swaledalemrt.org.uk

THE CAVE RESCUE ORGANISATION Cave & Mountain Rescue - The Cave Rescue Organisation...Saves Lives in Wild & Remote Places Above & Below Ground...in the Yorkshire Dales.
The CRO was originally formed in 1935 and has grown and developed over the years into the efficient organisation that it is today.
By the year 2000 the CRO had attended 1756 incidents.

THE CAVE RESCUE ORGANISATION Cave & Mountain Rescue

Clapham - Ribblesdale

The Cave Rescue Organisation...Saves Lives in Wild & Remote Places Above & Below Ground...in the Yorkshire Dales. The CRO was originally formed in 1935 and has grown and developed over the years into the efficient organisation that it is today. By the year 2000 the CRO had attended 1756 incidents.

http://www.cro.org.uk/

UWFRA - Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue - For over 50 years the U.W.F.R.A. has been rescuing people and animals from the caves and fells around Wharfedale, Nidderdale, Littondale and Mid-Airedale. The majority of its work involves attending incidents involving people or animals in difficulty in caves, potholes, mineshafts, on fells, crags or anywhere not accessible to the normal Emergency Services.

UWFRA - Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue

Grassington - Upper Wharfedale

For over 50 years the U.W.F.R.A. has been rescuing people and animals from the caves and fells around Wharfedale, Nidderdale, Littondale and Mid-Airedale. The majority of its work involves attending incidents involving people or animals in difficulty in caves, potholes, mineshafts, on fells, crags or anywhere not accessible to the normal Emergency Services.

http://www.uwfra.org.uk