Overview
- Great North Air Ambulance Service said it handled 17 emergency callouts over the Bank Holiday weekend across the North East and Cumbria.
- The weekend total included eight in Cumbria, six in the North East, two in Northumberland, and one in Lancashire.
- In Buttermere, crews treated a patient at the scene after a medical emergency and then flew them to hospital.
- In Seascale, the critical care team responded to a road crash, worked with North West Ambulance Service, and airlifted the patient.
- The charity said its helicopters carry a paramedic and a doctor, adding that the flights “carry hope.”