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A FUND-RAISER set up to support a mountain rescue volunteer who was seriously injured in a fall has raised almost £15,000 in a single day.

  Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team is investigating how it can set up a fund for its member who was seriously injured over the weekend. The volunteer, believed to be 60 years old, fell 150 metres down rough ground while on a call out to a camper experiencing chest pains at...

A mountain rescue volunteer who fell 150 metres while on a call out is in intensive care with spinal and facial injuries. His injuries are described as ‘life changing’ and have led to calls from mountain rescue teams for people to stay local. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team  was called out...

The 60-year-old, who went to help a man camping out in the Lake District, faces a "long recovery".

Police issue Lake District warning after rescuer falls 150 metres Josh Halliday North of England correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy Stock Photo Police have urged visitors to stay away from the Lake District after a mountain rescuer fell 150 metres and sustained “life-changing injuries” while coming to the aid of two hikers. Rescuers were called to help two men who had travelled more than 100 miles in contravention of coronavirus regula...

Two men, who had travelled to the Lake District from Liverpool and Leicester, have since been fined £200

A rescuer fell while responding to reports of a camper in the fells suffering chest pains.

A member of a Cumbrian mountain rescue team was airlifted to hospital after being seriously injured while on a call out in the early hours of yesterday. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out to help a person with chest pains, who was camping on Red Screes above Kirkstone Pass....

They were air-lifted to hospital after the fall. They had been out attending to a casualty who was suffering from chest pains.

A MOUNTAIN rescuer is in a serious condition after falling 150m during a rescue operation.