 A number of local residents and school children were the first on scene to give assistance, followed by multiple emergency services' personnel and vehicles, including mountain rescue teams, fire tenders, fire officers' cars, police vehicles, six road emergency ambulances and some non-emergency ambulances, doctors' cars, two air ambulances and four RAF rescue helicopters.The injured people were taken to Middlesbrough, Newcastle and Preston A&E departments.The first receiving hospital was West Cumberland.