Incidents
Nidd Gorge, North Yorkshire (41)
The Team’s Mountain Rescue Search Dog England handler and search dog was deployed to assist Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) with...
Tweedmouth (40)
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) contacted our Mountain Rescue duty controller to request whether we had swiftwater trained resources ...
Threestoneburn Wood (39)
Northumbria Police received a 999 call from two off-road motorcyclists, one of whom had sustained a potentially serious and painful injury having f...
Throckley (38)
On Sunday evening, a Mountain Rescue search group very sadly found a body close to Throckley, and whilst formal identification is yet to take place...
Harbottle area (37)
In the early hours of Thursday morning, the North East Ambulance Service requested the use of PhoneFind for a patient who could not be located. The...
Ashington (36)
A walker with their dog became disoriented in the woods north of Ashington earlier in the week and they were unable relocate themselves. Northumbri...
Derwent Valley (35)
The Team was involved in a multiagency incident. No further details will be provided at this time.
The incident involved 20 Team members for...
Sycamore Gap, Hadrian’s Wall (34)
A walker sustained a lower leg injury beside Robin Hood’s tree at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall. A very unfortunate end to their first day in ...
Harbottle area, Coquetdale (33)
The North East Ambulance Service and Northumbria Police had been unable to locate a vulnerable person who had potentially sustained a lower leg inj...
Chopwell Woods (32)
The North East Ambulance Service requested Mountain Rescue’s assistance for a teenager who had sustained injuries whilst mountain biking in Chopw...
Houghton-le-Spring (31)
Northumbria Police called out North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves to assist in a search for a high risk missing person in the Houghton...
The Cheviots (30)
Two mountain bikers became lost and then separated in deteriorating weather conditions in The Cheviots on Sunday evening. The initial 999 call went...
Uswayford (29)
A short lived incident on Thursday morning following a request for support from the North East Ambulance Service. An individual had turned up at Us...
Wooler (28)
A multi-agency search involving Northumbria Police, the National Police Air Service HQ and Mountain Rescue was initiated earlier in the week for a ...
Harthope Linn (27)
Lilburn Estates called upon Mountain Rescue’s assistance for a sheep who had managed to get itself into a ‘difficult to access’ location and ...
Cold Law, Harthope Valley (26)
A solo walker in his 70s set out from the Harthope Valley to follow the permissive path up onto Cold Law before returning to the valley via the Haw...
Kielder Forest (25)
At 19.04hrs Northumbria Police sent a PhoneFind for two teenagers who were lost in Kielder Forest on a bike ride. Despite the poor mobile reception...
Edges Green (24)
Chesters (23)
Two walkers had set off from Bulby’s Wood car park in the Breamish valley with the intention of climbing Brough Law and then following the hill f...
Kielder Forest (22)
Just as our response vehicle was being ‘put to bed’ for the night after the previous incident…
Northumbria Police sent a PhoneFind...
Lordenshaws (21)
Two incidents in quick succession on Saturday, here are details of the first…
Northumbria Police sent a PhoneFind to a lost walker with he...
Haydon Bridge (20)
The two Mountain Rescue Teams were called to assist the North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust with a medical emergency on the banks of the River T...
Gateshead (19)
A request was received from Northumbria Police for assistance with a medium risk missing person in the Gateshead area. With limited information ava...
Pegswood (18)
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service requested drone support for a multiagency incident near Pegswood railway station. Northumbria Police, the No...
Blanchland (17)
A walker sustained a lower leg injury after they had slipped in mud on the riverside path along the River Derwent, downstream of Blanchland. The gr...