VOLUNTEERS came to the aid of injured walkers twice in two days, helping get both safely to hospital in Barrow.
The Coniston Mountain Rescue team sent 11 of its members to help a woman with a suspected broken ankle after she fell near The Scrow above Coniston this morning. She was stretchered into one of their vehicles and taken to the team headquarters in Coniston before being taken to Furness General Hospital by a crew from the North West Ambulance Service.
Yesterday afternoon, 13 members of the team were joined by two members of Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue after a woman fell while walking near Swirl How above Coniston. She was found near Prison Band and the North West Air Ambulance landed on the summit ridge, where paramedics treated her for ankle injuries. The patient was then stretchered uphill to the waiting helicopter and airlifted to hospital in Barrow.
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