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Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team |
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| Saving Lives in Wild and Remote Places |
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Callouts 2000 |
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| Number |
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Incident |
| 1 |
6 January |
Team was called out to search the surrounding area of Sunderland for a missing patient from hospital. The person was found dead close to the hospital. |
| 2 |
9 January |
The Team was placed on standby to locate a missing family, lost and benighted in the Rothbury area. The family was found by a police helicopter and the TEam was stood down. |
| 3 |
17 January |
The Team was called out out at 0100 hours to search in the Carter Bar area for a missing male with suicidat tendancies. The person was found, inconscious and hypothermic. The Team evcuated the person to an awaiting ambulance. |
| 4 |
31 January |
The Team was called out to look for a missing elderly person from a care home. The person was found by the police close to A1 road. |
| 5 |
2 February |
The Team was placed on standby to search for a missing depressed person in farm land around the Bedlington area. The person was found by a farmer worker and the Team was stood down. |
| 6 |
12 February |
The Team was called out to search for a missing elderly person. The person was found unconcious and hypothermic. Evacuated to hospital. |
| 7 |
23 & 24 March |
The Team search through the night for a missing AWOL soldier. Nothing was found after two days searching. The soldier returned safe and well. |
| 8 |
9 April |
The Team was placed on standby to search for a missing child. The child was found safe and well before a full deployment of the Team. |
| 9 |
24 April |
The Team was placed on standby to search for another missing child. The child was found safe and well before a full deployment of the Team. |
| 10 |
25 April |
A rapid deployement of a search group from the Team was sent to search for a missing person over due at a guest house. The person was found at his home. |
| 11 |
27 April |
The Team was called out to search the wide open spaces of Newcastle to locate a missing elderly person. The person was found in the casualty unit of a local hospital. |
| 12 |
11 June |
The Team was called out out to locate the where abouts of a potentially suicidal person. The person was found admitting himself into a local hospital. |
| 13 |
17 June |
A competitor was stretchered off the Cheviots Hills to an awainting helicopter, after collapsing whilst participating in a mountain challenge event. |
| 14 |
29 June |
The police asked the Team to search for the owner missing form an abandoned car. After an extensive search the missing person was located in Lockerbie, Scotland. |
| 15 |
8 July |
Police called for the Team's assistance in locating a person missing overnight. The person was found by a search group, tired and confused. |
| 16 |
10 July |
The Team was placed on standby to locate a missing elederly person.
The person was found by the Police before a full call out. |
| 17 |
23 July |
The Team was asked by the Police to search for a missing waker in the Cheviot foot hills. As the Teamwas being deployed the walker was found. |
| 18 |
3 August |
The Team was asked to assist the helicopter evacuation of a climber who had
sustained head injuries on the Bizzle Crag in the College Valley. |
| 19 |
6 August |
The Team was asked to help the evacuation of Army cadets from the Cheviots Hills. |
| 20 |
26 August |
A missing walker in a mountain challenge event was found safe and well. In the same event another walker was treated for lacerations to the head. |
| 21 |
31 August |
A missing walker was found safe and well just before the Team was deployed onto the Pennine Way in the Cheviots Hills. |
| 21 |
20 Sept. |
Two missing soldiers were found safe and well at 0400 hours after a search through the night. |
| 22 |
7 Oct. |
The Team was called to locate a missing person in Kidland forest. Found safe and well. |
| 23 |
10 Oct. |
The Team made an extensive search for an Army officer who was overdue. Found safe and well by a search group. |
| 24 |
12 Oct. |
The Team evacuated a person with a fractured ankle on Hadrian's Wall. |
| 25 |
19 Oct. |
The Team was asked to search for a missing paratropper reported overdue following a night time drop. The soldier was found safe and well by a search group. |
| 26 |
21 Nov. |
A missing despondant was located by the Team in the North Northumberland coastal area. |
| 27 |
30 Nov. & 1 Dec. |
A two day search for another missing despondant was made by the Team in the North Northumberland coastal area. Nothing was found |
| 28 |
2 Dec. |
A limited callout was undertaken by Team members for the location in Urban woodland. The missing person was taken to hospital. |
| 29 |
9 Dec |
Team placed on standby to search for two missing Army cadets. No callout was instigated as the missing person were locate d in their homes! |
| 30 |
9 Dec |
Team was called to standby and assist teh Teesdale SRT in the location of a missing person. Before a full callout was made the perosn concerned was located. |
| 31 |
23 Dec |
The Team was asked by the Police to re-visit the search areas of 30 Nov and 1 Dec. Nothing was found. |
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