The Team attended a casualty from a mountain bike event in Kielder. The person sustained lacerations to the face which were dealt with by our advanced casualty carer. The person was advised to seek further medical attention in hospital.

Northumbria SAR Services received a call from Northumbria Police control room at 1625. They reported that two walkers had dialled 999 on a mobile phone to say that they were lost in the Cheviots. As a result the Team and NOTSRT were called out to rendezvous at Hawsen Burn, in the Harthope valley.

The police maintained mobile phone contact with the lost walkers, although messages from them were patchy and confusing. They were located at around 1810, by search and rescue helicopter from RAF Boulmer, in the vicinity of Scotsman Knowe, and the teams were stood down.

On 12.02.09 the Team leader was contacted at 0130 regarding a 17 year old male who had been reported missing from the family home near Hexham at 2000. The Team was called out. The missing person was located within a few minutes of the start of the search. Sadly, he was deceased.

The Team responded to a NESRA callout to North Yorkshire to search for two missing boys. After a brief search the boys were found by a member of NNPMRT who was en route to the search control point. They were cold and hungry but otherwise OK. Read more>>

The Team were one of five mountain rescue teams from the North East involved in the search for a York woman who went missing a week earlier. Sixty five mountain volunteer team members from Teesdale, Swaldale, Northumberland, Scarborough and Cleveland searched open land along the missing person's route between her home and work place. Read more>>

A competitor in a mountain bike downhill event fell from his bike and sustained chest injuries. Team members assisted, the on-scene event medics, with treatment and transport to hospital.

On Sunday April 5th the team provided rescue cover for a mountain bike event in Kidland Forest. As the two team vehicles were arriving back at their base at Ponteland after the event, they were alerted to an incident involving a missing boy in the Cheviots. They set off for Wooler, along with a search manager, but before they arrived the boy was located safe and well.

The Team was contacted by the Nothumbria Police at about 2030 on Thursday June 4th in connection with a female who had gone missing earlier that evening. The incident history suggested that she might harm herself in some way. She had last been seen heading into Carlisle Park in Morpeth, which was subsequently searched by team members but without success. While this was taking place, investigation by the police revealed that she had been seen getting into a taxi. Further investigation identified the destination of her taxi journey, and as a result she was detained by the police at about 2230.

The Team were contacted by Northumbria Police at 1830 in connection with a search for a missing female. She had last been seen in Guide Post. The Team was tasked to search both sides of the River Wansbeck from Sheepwash bridge towards the coast. This was completed as daylight was disappearing, but no trace of the missing person was found.

Along with North of Tyne, we were contacted by the police at around 2015 regarding a female who had gone missing while out running, possibly in Jesmond Dene. There was a complicated background to the story. The pager system was not working (the Vodapage number was permanently engaged), the police had given the two teams a limited task, and so a telephone callout took place of those members who lived in the immediate area. The paths through the dene between Castle Farm Road and Armstrong Bridge were searched ... nothing found. As time went by it appeared increasingly likely that she was not in the area. We stood down around midnight.