Whilst Steve and Boris were responding to this request, the missing person was located and so Steve was stood down en-route.

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Colleagues from Rossendale & Pendle MRT requested a small contingent from team to support their members responding, and four Bolton MRT team members responded to assist.

On arrival, team members assisted RPMRT and the North West Air Ambulance with the evacuation of the patient up a short but steep and tricky slope to the waiting aircraft.

Team members then returned to Bolton and stood down at 16:10.

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Colleagues from Rossendale and Pendle MRT were mobilised at the same time. Initially the location of the incident was thought to be in RPMRT’s team area, so one vehicle from Bolton MRT was sent to support RPMRT, departing from our Base 18 minutes after the initial call.

After some difficulty in getting an exact location for the casualty, additional BMRT team members were mobilised to assist in searching the area.

After some searching by both teams the casualty was located (just over the boundary between our two team’s areas). BMRT and RPMRT members were in attendance at the same time, with vehicles from both teams traversing the moorland track near to Red Brook.

As it was suspected that the casualty might’ve been suffering from a cardiac event, the North West Air Ambulance was requested to attend – and after first making sure that the Holcome Army Training Camp danger area was free of gunfire, we liaised with NWAS EOC Broughton so that the aircraft would be permitted to attend.

As 12:20, the Air Ambulance departed with the casualty on board and both teams returned to their respective bases.

We were later pleased to hear that the casualty was making a recovery at hospital having undergone a procedure.

Our thanks are expressed to the staff at Holcombe Army Training Camp for the vital role they played during this incident.

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The team was requested to meet offices at Ousel’s Nest car park.

Happily, as the team was assembling for the search, the missing person turned up safe and well and the team was stood down at 09:28. Members then went onto providing safety cover for the Rivington Half Marathon.

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Alistair, an A&E nurse, and Sam McKay, a staff nurse, assessed the casualties and helped to stabilise until an NWAS RRV arrived. We remained on scene until two ambulances arrived to transport the injured parties to hospital.

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Bowland Pennine had been searching Nicky Nook, near Scorton, since the early hours, and with continued areas outstanding had requested the assistance of Bolton MRT and Rossendale & Pendle MRT, as well as search dogs from Calder Valley SRT, Cave Rescue Organisation and Cheshire LSRT. As we were in the middle of our peer review we also had our facilitators from Cleveland MRT and Swaledale MRT.

The search was coordinated from Bowland Pennines Ray Lane base/HQ.

At 10:10 the news came through that the woman had been found. Team member and staff nurse Sam McKay attended the scene to assist with medical needs the lady had, before handing over to an NWAS ambulance.

All teams would like to wish the lady a speedy recovery.

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The team were placed on standby whilst a “sarlock” was made to pin point the walkers location.

Assistant Team Leader, Mark Scott, who lives in Horwich made his way to the missing walkers location, and transported the pair to their vehicle.

22 team personnel had declared themselves available for a search, should the need have arisen.

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A 16 year old male was reported to have suffered serious abdominal injuries in fields near to Boothstown Marina.

An NWAS RRV paramedic, Emergency ambulance and the NWAS HART team were mobilised, in addition to ourselves and GMP officers. Additional support was provided by an aircraft from the National Police Air Service, for scene lighting and search.

Our first attending team members arrived on scene at 21:12. After initial treatment by the NWAS crews, the casualty was carried on a BMRT stretcher for approximately 500m, to the road, for onward transport to hospital.

BMRT remained on scene to provide scene lighting to support the work of officers from GMP.

Our thanks are expressed to several youths on scene who helped to guide personnel to the incident site.

In total, 22 Bolton MRT members assisted on this incident in three team vehicles.

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The man had sustained an ankle injury whilst walking. The single crew NWAS RRV had reached the man, but required our assistance to carry the man to the nearest road head.

16 team members responded to this incident, who were guided in to the location by the injured mans friend.

The mans leg was placed in a vacuum mattress before transferring onto a stretcher for the short carry to the waiting ambulance.

The team would like to wish the man a speedy recovery from his injury.

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As team members were gathering to collect vehicles, we were contacted again by the police saying they had enough personnel to deal with the incident.

The team would like to pass on our condolences to the womans family.

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