Bowpand Penning Mountain Rescue Team during the rescue in Gisburn Forest
A WOMAN who sustained a back injury after falling during a walk in Gisburn Forest at the weekend was assisted to an ambulance by the Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team.
The team was called out on Saturday, October 16, at 2.08pm after the woman had slipped and heard a crack.
The team administered pain-reducing drugs and when stable, evacuated her to the waiting land ambulance inside a vacuum mattress on a bell mountain stretcher.
Once she was transferred to the ambulance, the team reconfigured the vehicles before returning back to base, via Royal Blackburn Hospital to collect the equipment that had gone with the casualty.
The callout was incident number 58/2021.
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