Angel of the North

Incident Type: Search

On Friday night, whilst team members were coming off the hill from the incident at Carey Burn, ourselves and at North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team were activated again by the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Keith Briggs, Team Leader for NOTMRT, picks up the story. “Our volunteers had no sooner started their journey home from the incident in the Cheviots when a second call came in to help search for a missing person in a wooded area near the Angel of the North. NEAS and their Hazardous Area Response Team were already trying to locate the person who was lost and suffering with a potential lower limb injury. We quickly deployed fresh team members as well as re-deploying some of our volunteers from the Harthope incident – it proved to be a very long drive down to South Tyneside for some of them!”

Again, with time critical, team members redeployed and set up operational command at the Angel of the North. Three search groups were deployed with a paramedic from the NEAS Hazardous Area Response Team in each group. In addition to MR personnel, officers from Northumbria Police, their drone and dogs were also deployed. A truly multi agency response!

The teams searched through the night and fortunately, just after 2.30am, the missing person was found by mountain rescue volunteers and handed over to NEAS for treatment.

With both incidents now successfully completed the teams were able to stand down and head home for a few short hours of sleep! Some of them managed to catch the Solstice sunrise on their way home!

The incident involved 14 Team members for 4 hours and 29 minutes.