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Our Busiest Year on Record

14 Jan 10

The Cleveland Search and Rescue team has had its busiest year on record.

Last year, the volunteers dealt with a total of 44 incidents ranging from searching for Alzheimers suffers and rescuing injured walkers and mountain bikers, to rescuing a snow-trapped hiker and helping the search for missing York woman Claudia Lawrence.

However, one of the most tricky situations the volunteers found themselves involved in was rescuing a man who had fallen into a ravine in Saltburn.

The crew were forced to clambered down the ravine to get the injured man out of the stream and onto a stretcher before he was winched to safety.

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