Incidents and Call Outs

CamSAR assistance, Theo Kawala search 21st - 23rd Feb 2011

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:36:18 +0000

Monday 21/02/11

A request was received from CamSAR for assistance in the missing persons search of a 16 year old male reported missing 21/02/11. He was last seen in the Peterborough city centre area on Friday at around midnight.

Andrew, Mike and Bowny assisted CAMSAR with the search of local area. Also the route he is believed to have been taking home. The search was called of at 7pm due to fading light.

Tuesday 22/02/11

We continued the search of the Peterborough area with CamSAR for misper. Brett and Scottie were on scene, searching areas around the mispers home including the surrounding water courses and nature reserves. The search concluded at 7:30 pm with a search of the car parks and railway bridges around the Rail World area

Wednesday 23/02/11

Day 3 of the search in Peterborough for missing 16 year old. The search moved to a new area along the river. Andrew and Mike were in attendance, The day started with a search of abandoned and disused commercial buildings along the river. The rest of the day was spent doing bank searches down river to the east of the City centre. All teams where stood down by Cambridgeshire Police later in the day.

Support requested by CAMSAR Feb 17th - 18th 2011

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:39:45 +0000

Thursday 17th

0830hrs the team went active after a request from Cambridge Search and Rescue (CAMSAR) to assist them with a search for a elderly female that had been reported missing by her family. Sally Middleton (82) went missing on Monday morning after catching a bus to Peterborough city centre.

YALSAR mobilised a team, which meet at Warrington police station Peterborough to assist in a joint search along with CAMSAR and MIDSHIRES. The search lasted all day with a number of searches conducted through the day in several areas of Peterborough but to no avail.

Friday 18th

YALSAR was requested to join CAMSAR in a new location for the missing 82 year old female as new information had come via the police through the night from studying CCTV footage. It was positively identified that the misper had been seen alighting from the 202 bus at Morton near Bourne in Lincolnshire.

YALSAR joined CAMSAR and MIDSHHIRES with the assistance of Cambridge Police. A full scale search of the surrounding area was conducted by all three teams and a body was discovered in the area. The body found at 12.15pm 18th February in a field in Morton village, near to Bourne still needs to be formally identified but the family believe it to be Mrs Middleton.

Our sincere thoughts and feelings are with the family of the deceased at this very upsetting time.

Standby 25th January 2011

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:12 +0000

The team were put on standby by West Yorkshire Police. With a view to launching a search for a missing male. The 17-year-old, of Swillington, was last seen walking along Denby Dale Road at about 01:30 GMT on 22 January. He had been out for an evening drinking in Wakefield.

The team remained on standby until being stood down at 15:00hrs 2^nd February when the body of a man was recovered from the River Calder at Thornes Lane Wharfe.

EMAS Call Out 30th Nov 2010

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:27:34 +0000

Tuesday 30th

EMAS assistance call for 2 vehicles and crew to work from Louth ambulance station. Bret, Marcus and Mike in Landrover 110 ambulance ( mobile 1) and Rob Fox , John Fox and Scottie to meet up at Louth in second vehicle.

We set off at 3 pm and battled what all I can say were some of the worst roads I have seen in a long while. M180 totally white over. we arrived at Louth some 3 hours later.
We were then tasked at 9:30 to meet with Gary the paramedic from the prev days shout to try and get through to Caistor to a 73 year old male that has had a fall in the snow and has a leg and ankle injurry. All roads to Caistor were closed due to conditions and no ambulance could get within 5 miles of the address. we set off over the Wolds to try and get through. the roads were at least a foot deep in snow with drifts to nearly 3 feet, visability was no more than 10 feet and the weather was certainly a blizzard, rocking and pushing the landrover side ways as we were moving forward.

Whilst on the top we came across a car that had gone into a ditch. We stopped to check it out and make sure there were no casualties onboard, all was fine , car was empty. reported to EMAS control. in the 2 mins we were there the snow had drifted up the wheels to the body work on the drivers side!

We set of and progressed very carefully and arrived at the callers address. The caller appeard to have suffered a broken ankle and the swelling was bad. A descision was taken to convey to Grimsby hospital. Mike Evens, Marcus, Gary the paramedic and Brett carried the patient to the 110 and we made are way to Grimsby. we handed over to A and E and returned to Louth for 1 am. quick coffee and then off for home. Driving conditions were terrible on the roads and with the wind and snow. 3 hours later we arrived back in doncaster for 4:30am.
Mileage 207 miles (doncaster louth caister grimsby louth bawtry doncaster)

Rob Fox and Scottie were tasked as we arrived at Louth at 6pm to assist a paramedic with a stroke patient near Brigg, they were to drive to Brigg to collect a paramedic and then convey to hospital. We did not see much of the other team but I can imagine that there driving conditions were as bad as what I have reported. they returned safely to louth AS and then returned home .
Mileage 280 (chesterfield louth brigg grimsby louth chesterfield)

I can confirm that all parties involved in these call outs so far have experience some hurrendouse weather and have most definatly made a difference to people lifes if not saved them. I can only comment on what had been said to us, but we were told that if it was not for us the patients with the broken hip would have had not choice but to have remained on the tiled floor in the conservatory/ kitchen till better weather in the morning which would have meant she would have been on the floor for roughly 17 hours, this is a massive and dangerouse ordeal for anyone to go through. let alone a 83 year old

Well done team.

Brett.

EMAS Callaout 29th Nov 2010

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:10:46 +0000

Monday 29th

EMAS call out to assist paramedic practicianer to get to an 83 yr old female who has fallen, suspect broken hip. Meet and worked from louth ambulance station. Brett and marcus enroute in the 110 ambulance. We set off at 5 30 pm and arrived at Louth for 7pm, roads very bad but passable. we collected the paramedic and set out for callers address some 15 miles away and 40 mins drive due to the tretcherous road conditions. The lone female had fallen and a suspected broken hip was confirmed. She had been on the floor for 4 hours before the call was raised, a further 2 hours was taken for us to get there. We did a controlled lift and placed patient on a spinal board, conveyed in rear of 110 ambulance to a redezvouze point with EMAS. then assisted their stuck ambulance to get free and under way, We then returned to Louth to return to stanby from there. Returned home for 2:30am tues day morning.
Mileage 172 miles (Doncaster Louth Scamblesby Baumer Louth Doncaster)

Monday 29th

EMAS assistance call to Horncastle to assist in patient transfer of a renal patient trapped in the snow. Mike Evans and Gav Ward responding from Doncaster in Landrover Discovery, during the call they were diverted to 3 trapped patients who needed to be conveyed to Mablethorpe from Lincoln County hospital all three were elderly and infirm. Community car could not make head way through the snow.
Mike and Gav collected 3 patients, a carer and a wheel chair conveyed and then returned back to Louth ambulance station to re group before returning home.
Mileage 204 miles (doncaster lincoln mablethorpe louth doncaster)

Monday 29th

EMAS assistance call to Lincoln hospital to convey renal patients to mablethorpe due to transfer being stuck in snow. Ian McGarry was called out for this,unfortunatly enroute Ians Shogun developed engine issues and had to be pulled of the callout, Mike and Gav re tasked
Mileage unknown at this stage (lincoln to lincoln county hospital back to lincoln)

EMAS Call Out 27th Nov 2010

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:57:08 +0000

Emas call out to an overturned ambulance between grantham and lincoln, Brett, Marcus and Mike originally deployed, enroute to Mikes house for pick up we got cancelled from the job as 4x4 Responce were closer and could help with the ambulance which had since become clear it had not turned over but infact slid of the road into a ditch whilst responding to a 999 call. We were re tasked to go to Grantham ambulance station and work from there with ambulance calls. 01:00 we stood down and returned to Doncaster.
mileage 136 miles. ( Boncaster Bawtry Grantham and surrounding area Doncaster)

EMAS Standby 24 Nov 2010

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:00:00 +0000

YALSAR are standing by for East Midlands Ambulance Service form 18:00 Wednesday 24th November.

EMAS Standby 7 Nov 2010

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:00:00 +0000

YALSAR were standing by for East Midlands Ambulance Service form 18:00 Sunday 7th November. We did not go Active and were stood down at 12:00 Tuesday 9th November

Incident 17 Jun 2010

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100

We were travelling back from a meeting in the yalsar truck along the A45 in Warrickshire. We were just coming off the A45 onto the M69 when we noticed an elderly female cross the slip road and start to go down the embankment, it was obvious to the both of us that she was lost and something was wrong. It was not safe for us to park on the slip road. so we took the descision to drive around the round about onto the fly over to see where she was.As we got onto the flyover we saw the elderly femal fall down the steep embankment and fall into the hard shoulder and dangerously onto lane 1.

We both imeadeatly responded by quickly putting on our hi viz tabards and ran along the flyover and then climed down the embankment on the A45 ( which is basically a motorway) bowny had his first aid kit and went to the victim. I phoned the police on the 3 9's system whilst standing in lane 1 to usher the traffic into lane 2 to try and protct the casualty who was now moving around but obviously disoreantated. My concern was she would wonder into lane 1 and as she was still a good 100 yrds away , we would not have been able to stop her. We made contact with the casualty, bowny did a quick assesment, the lady had a large bruise to her face with a cut and a couple a grazes.We decided due to the nature of the location to take her back to safety up the slip road to our car and awaite the police and ambulance. We had to walk her back up the slip road, so i again acted as safety guy and stood some distance behind them in now lane 2 of the slip road to fend of the vehicles coming up at speed, once back at the car bowny started to treat the casualty and we awaited the prompt response from coventry and Warrickshire police and ambulance services. apparrently this junction falls on the county lines!

The lady did infact turn out to be a missing from home. When we were speaking to her she refeered to being from northern island but was trying to get back to her new house over the road. she had infact been in this country for some 30 plus years and at that time the A45 was not there, hence why she was trying to cross it lane by lane rather than use the bridge. The other noticable thing is the police are aware of here and she normally speaks with a coventry accent, but at times like these she goes back to an irish accent due to her state of mind and illness.

The lady turned out to be ok just with a few cuts and bruises, but could have been a whole lot worse if we had not been there at that time. It was a concerning thing to see that out of all the vehicles speeding down the road only 1 had stoped to try to assist!

But a good job all round