Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team received a request at 9.47am this morning from Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist with the evacuation of a 52-year-old man who had fallen off his mountain bike on Harden Moor and sustained a head injury.
The rider’s friends raised the alarm as he was feeling quite confused and drifting in and out of consciousness.
No less than 22 team members were available to respond instantly and made their way to the location in team vehicles or directly... including Sophie Keeler, who had baby Jesse strapped to her!
Once on-scene, team members assisted the YAS crew to make the casualty comfortable and then packaged him in a vacuum mattress before evacuating him some distance by stretcher to the road, where he was handed over to the ambulance crew for transfer to hospital.
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