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Incident 43. Northallerton area (Assist)

20 Dec 09

18th Dec 00-45.

This call came from York Ambulance Control.
We were asked to help transfer a patient with acute abdominal pain to the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. Their Ambulance was stuck in snow in Borrowby and the patient was in Cowesby. We met the Ambulance and took its Paramedic with us to Cowesby and, after treatment, the patient was transferred to the Hospital in our Land Rover.
There were 2 team members on this one which lasted 4 hours.
We have been put on standby by York Ambulance Control to back up their crews because of the severe weather.