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Buckbarrow Crag, Longsleddale: KMRT 20090129
site name:-   Buckbarrow Crag
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
locality type:-   mountain rescue exercise
coordinates:-   NY482073
1Km square:-   NY4807
10Km square:-   NY40
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 Kendal Mountain Rescue Team, KMRT: rescue exercise on the lower slopes of Buckbarrow Crag, Longsleddale, 29.1.2009. The exercise was filmed by BBC TV, the aim being to advertise the team and highlight a problem with VAT.

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BPY57.jpg  Landrover ambulance on the Sadgill to Gatescarth Pass track, level with Buckbarrow Crag.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY58.jpg  Unoading equipment.
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BPY59.jpg  Equipment.
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BPY60.jpg  Radio bag; team arm badge.
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BPY61.jpg  Landrover ambulance.
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BPY62.jpg  Setting off up the brae, the resuce stretcher is in two parts on a back frame.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY63.jpg  The red bag on the right shoulder of the man on the left is the Medisac; the red bag carried by the man at the back is the Cas bag.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY64.jpg  Assembling the rescue stretcher.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY65.jpg  Readying the stretcher.
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BPY66.jpg  The casualty being brought to the stretcher in the Cas-Bag.
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BPY67.jpg  Lowering the casualty in the Cas Bag onto the stretcher.
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BPY68.jpg  Strapping the casualty in the Cas-Bag on the stretcher.
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BPY69.jpg  Ready to lift.
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BPY70.jpg  Carrying.
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BPY71.jpg  Carrying.
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BPY72.jpg  Carrying.
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BPY73.jpg  Raising the headguard on the stretcher.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY74.jpg  Readied for carrying on more open ground; notice the blue straps taking the weight of the carrying handles to the back frame.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY75.jpg  Carrying.
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BPY76.jpg  Carrying.
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BPY77.jpg  Landrover ambulance.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY78.jpg  Equipment.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY79.jpg  Tidying equipment ready for the next incident.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY80.jpg  Tidying equipment ready for the next incident.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY81.jpg  Console inside the Landrover ambulance.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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BPY82.jpg  KMRT badge on the spare tyre cover.
(taken 29.1.2009)  
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